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  • Glyph.04927
  • Strokes: 11
  • grade_09


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Mincho:
Gothic:
笠
笠

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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
リュウ
RYU U
Kun-yomi
かさ
ka sa

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Meanings of elements
BAMBOO and SWELLED, ENLARGED, ENGORGED
…or: FLEXIBLE BAMBOO over ERECTION
「Bent over in lordosis, bowing over, flexible」with「standing erection」: significantly, the function of an UMBRELLA is to repel droplets, to keep drops of sticky fluid from reaching a person, and this function is integral to understanding this glyph used as an element with no relationship to rain or to raindrops…that is, this shape can also keep drops IN by preventing them from falling out.
Umbrella made from bamboo split vertically into may spines with waxed or oiled paper attached as webbing, when closed and not in use, resembled「bamboo swelled, bamboo with an erection.」
CONICAL HAD COVER: these hats covered a person's entire upper body at times, and resembled an opened umbrella, a conical shape not unlike the tip of an erection. Large conical hats were worn by serfs and rural farmers, viewed by the city folk as signs of ignorance and being backward, rear access into soil, and so on. A much smaller version of such an umbrella worn as a hat on one's other head to prevent leakage of droplets, to keep drops of sticky fluid from reaching another person, also indicated ignorance of the sources and causes of infections transmitted sexually.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: bamboo rain hat
Japanese EDRDG: bamboo hat, one's influence
Unihan extended: bamboo hat; bamboo covering

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 43 entries


Chinese usage: 3 entries


  • Glyph.04927
  • Strokes: 11
  • grade_09

   


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