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CHO U
i ta da ku ・ i ta da ki
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「Male blasting discharge」and「facing downward」looking at his own CROWN, the HEAD CORONA, that is, seeing the top of the head. Recall that the right element is「horizontal over fleshpot」ostensibly looking at something to eat. Believed to mean bowing one's head to humbly ACCEPT, to TAKE GRACIOUSLY AND RECEIVE something, and the meaning of being able to see the CROWN OF THE HEAD, TOPMOST PART becomes apparent, although no mention is made of whose head is bowed nor of which head it is…
That comes with the original glyph, which to no one's surprise is censored today and excluded from external sources: 嵿 as「emerging LAVA cone, glans peak」with「male」and「head facing downward」meaning nothing less than「I am gonna eat, take, do, receive this.」It then becomes apparent, as is commonly thought, that the top of the head referred to is that of something seen below the eyes of the beholder who is looking with「face down and cogitating at a blasted male discharge.」
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: apex; crown of the head; top; roof; most; to carry on the head; to push to the top; to go against; to replace; to substitute; to be subjected to (an aerial bombing, hailstorm etc); (slang) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile; classifier for headwear, hats, veils etc
Japanese: crown, summit, spire, easy win for one, something received, to receive, to get, to accept, to take, to buy, to eat, to drink, to be crowned with, to wear, to have, to live under, to install, to be pretty good, to be exquisite, to be approvable, expression of gratitude before meals
Unihan extended: top, peak; carry on head; very
EDRDG: place on the head; receive; top of head; top; summit; peak
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system.
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 78 entries
Chinese usage: 112 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 3 entries
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