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  • Glyph.05591
  • Strokes: 12 ~ 11
  • jlpt-N2 grade_09


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キン
KI N
Kun-yomi
すみれ
su mi re

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Meanings of elements
EMERGING SHAFTS, STALKS, STEMS with ARRAY OF JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES, ROWDY BEHAVIOR, FEMALE-FEMALE RELATIONS or with VULVA, MOTHER CHINA and PRICK
Depicting the lower classes of people not knowing their roots or lineage (the peasants), and VIOLETS for their characteristically powerful, nearly unstoppable method of propagating. VIOLETS, STIFLING, SMOTHERING WHAT IS BESIDE.「Plant, flower」but in traditional fonts, two「twisting」elements connected at the bottom that refers to the root system of violets. The manner in which violets propagate is by extensions of the root systems underground into adjacent soil and in this manner, violets STIFLE and SMOTHER the life out of whatever was growing nearby, densely crowding all other root systems, killing neighboring plants and taking over that soil for expansion. Violets are considered weeds in many places in the Northern Hemisphere that are most difficult to eradicate. Because of the tangled and matted root system, it is nearly impossible to know which stalk is connected to which root, a reference to ancient human lineage in China, used as a reference possibly due to its burgeoning population that crowds out neighbors. Chinese also settle densely in other societies, creating so-called「Chinatowns」that de facto permit no other culture, and violets do not permit any other plants to propagate among them. This pictograph also included the「middle, vulva」element at its core, the glyph that represents Mother China, among other euphemisms.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 堇; violet
Japanese EDRDG: the violet
Unihan extended: celery, aconite

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: 9 entries


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  • Glyph.05591
  • Strokes: 12 ~ 11
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