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JU TSU
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「Loitering, aimless dawdling」with「mandrakes」(the center element seems to be「mayapple, mandrake」)「males in line with small steps」and since mandrakes are rumored to have enormous magical powers of their own (such as, hooting, howling, and hollering when pulling out from soil…hmmm) and can bestow magical powers to others (the toxic plant can cause hallucinations, and is famous as an aphrodisiac) and so on and so forth ad infinitum…there are just too many stories associated with the magic of mandrakes to relate here. Suffice to say that the plant means SPECIAL POWERS, MAGICAL TECHNIQUES, ARTISTRY OF WIZARDS AND WITCHES.
Later meaning true SCIENCE and ENGINEERING…misunderstood science, as well as not yet understood science, is often thought of as magical by the masses of common folk and was used by wizards and 'wise men' to fool people, claiming possession of special powers.
「Among all living organisms, flowers, which are the reproductive structures of angiosperms, are the most varied physically and show a correspondingly great diversity in methods of reproduction.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_reproductive_morphology#cite_note-Barr02-1 2018-03-05 ]
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: various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea; method; technique
Japanese: art, means, technique, way, method
Unihan extended: art, skill, special feat; method, technique
EDRDG: art; technique; skill; means; trick; resources; magic
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: 408 entries
Chinese usage: 126 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 29 entries
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- Strokes: 11
- jlpt-N3 grade_05
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