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SHI ・ JI
tsu ka e ru
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Possibly could be read as a「person with a hard-on」to do well, ready to provide service to someone and DO them, but politely, of course. This glyph unsurprisingly also refers to one's JOB, or to various service provider 'jobs,' as the old source of meaning of the expression,「…it comes with the job」(see 'come' 来).
「From religious circles [the Buddhists], same-sex love spread to the warrior (samurai) class, where it was customary for a boy in the wakashū age category to undergo training in the martial arts by apprenticing to a more experienced adult man. The man was permitted, if the boy agreed, to take the boy as his lover until he came of age. This relationship, often formalized in a 'brotherhood contract,' was expected to be exclusive, with both partners swearing to take no other (male) lovers. This practice, along with clerical pederasty, developed into the codified system of age-structured homosexuality…」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_Japan 2012-07-02 ]
In China, meaning a SERVICE PROVIDER:「person's penis.」「Ten men in array」or「ten men with one」or「array of tools」and so on, as the de facto limit for a single service provider to handle simultaneously, determined during various competitions…from the bottom up: two no-longer-integrated feet, one anus, one vagina, one tit set, two hands, two armpits, one mouth. While other bodily sites and combinations were attempted of course, this one proved to be the only setup that was workable for all eleven participants, given the logistics involved of physical body placement. See Qing Dynasty sex manuals and erotic Chinese art for details. Note that some added lubrication was necessary in some spots, and everyone needed to cooperate while providing support to one another, hence meaning the polite form of TO DO…and it is no use denying that service providers held these competitions. Humans still do, today.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to serve as an official; an official; the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将
Japanese EDRDG: attend, doing, official, serve
Unihan extended: official; serve government
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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 355 entries
Chinese usage: 7 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 21 entries
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