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KA N ・ KE N
a i da ・ ma ・ a i
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Formerly in Chinese suggesting a NEED FOR SEPARATION and being DISCONTENTED because of interference, positioned TOO CLOSELY TOGETHER and DEPRIVED OF COMFORT, a NEED FOR THINNING OUT the clients a bit, with the inner element either as「two orifices in contact, juxtaposed female-to-female」and therefore being too close together, or,「speaking」that may be disturbing the neighboring room occupants. Referring to the missing GAP, INTERVAL or LATERAL SPACING. Concept of SUFFICIENT SPACING, ROOMINESS in which to move freely applies directly, since colliding with an adjacent set of bodies might limit activities, and no one appreciates being struck by an errant limb.
Glyph 閒 is used as a replacement, not because it means「gateway to the Moon」but because it means「gateway to meat, leisure, mooning」and the mooning position reveals「two orifices properly spaced」and separated by the perineum wall, or some interval of time. 閑 as「woodies in the gateway」also needing sufficient SPACING of time and distance.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: gap; to separate; to thin out (seedlings); to sow discontent; between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms
Japanese EDRDG: interval, space
Unihan extended: interval, space; place, between
Used within names (nanori)
ちか ・ は ・ はざ ・ はし
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: 1079 entries
Chinese usage: 207 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 10 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 60 entries
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- Strokes: 12
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