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「Deep feelings」due to someone「becoming divine too early」is to MOURN, GRIEVE, LAMENT someone's death. Within Japanese Buddhist tradition, the ashes and unburned bone fragments of a deceased person after cremation are displayed「off the floor」on a table for 49 days in the home prior to internment of the bones and ashes within a cemetery grave marker, as「deep feelings for those eminent but now upon a table.」The tradition also states that the「spirit of the deceased」continues to reside in the home for that grieving period, actually「on the table」with the bones and ashes, and does not depart for nether regions until after the 49 days have passed. Note that GRIEVING, LAMENTING, and MOURNING would still be quite strong for someone who had lived with you, but had then died within the past seven weeks. Normally, the elder「eminent」members of a household die before those younger. In addition, remember that the Japanese were Buddhists generally, but the old sages were Taoists and didn't believe in all this claptrap.
「Deep feelings of losing one's precocious child as sacrificial meat too early」as perhaps a mother GRIEVING, LAMENTING, and MOURNING: see elements for details.
「Viewing women as commodities…. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to mourn; to lament
Japanese EDRDG: lament, grieve over
Unihan extended: grieve, mourn, lament; grieved
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
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, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
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 seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they 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 lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
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Japanese vocabulary: 15 entries
Chinese usage: 14 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 31 entries
- Glyph.04884
- Strokes: 11
- jlpt-N2 grade_08
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