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SHI CHI
na na ・ na na tsu ・ na no
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Numerals one through ten are all associated with hand gestures, used in China to avoid confusion while bargaining or simply due to pronunciation problems using different dialects, or while bidding at an auction and keeping the bid quiet. This gesture is supposedly depicting the thumb (as 'five') and first two fingers held upward with the tips all touching (five plus two equals seven, generally).
Also depicts a sword slashing action used to attack as SLASHED IN HALF and then likely with something plopping onto the floor.「Sitting person」with both feet no-longer-integrated in half as the signature mark of a service provider or concubine (匕 and perhaps another source of seven often being believed as a lucky number, in some venues), an extremely similar and substituted glyph. Feet bones are no-longer-integrated until each foot can be bent toes to heel, the bones being「slashed in half」and after used as intended, likely with something plopping onto the floor, such as the foot meat itself (see 訇, 迶, 蹀, and so on).
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: seven; 7
Japanese: seven, hepta-
Unihan extended: seven
EDRDG: seven
Used within names (nanori)
し ・ しっ ・ な ・ ひち
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Japanese vocabulary: 189 entries
Chinese usage: 124 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 230 entries
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- Strokes: 02
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