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SU I
to ge ru ・ tsu i ni
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Note that the pronunciation of this glyph is the English swine call,「SUEY」or「SOOEY」or「SUE-EEE」or「SOOIE」or however else one wishes to represent the Chinese tones, the same as used in the name of the western dish formerly named chopped suey (or today as 'chop suey,' in the same manner that 'iced cream' came to be pronounced 'ice cream'). Chinese commanders would call to their enslaved 'comfort' women by hollering this glyph allowing preparation for the oncoming rush of men, and to give notice to the troops it was time to come and get it. The dish itself is purportedly of very recent origin, long after the glyphs were created, and uses 碎 (pronounced similarly) meaning「no-longer-integrated: early death of newly graduated foot soldiers, and testicles」which also could refer to pig offal and sexual slavery of people with no-longer-integrated feet who also could be considered foot soldiers, as it were. Many other glyphs are associated with this pronunciation, but not too many that also use pig meat…while many of those that fit both the sound and element [search keywords: スイ, 豕 ] could substitute here just as well, this glyph fits perfectly.
Perhaps, but an unlikely suggestion nonetheless: depicting the time of year of the「movement of emitted pigs.」Serfs formerly turned their pigs loose in forests under the huge canopy of chestnut trees to forage upon fallen chestnuts and fatten up in the autumn prior to winter. Chestnuts were a vitally essential crop for all mammals, including humans. This glyph may depict when it is FINALLY TIME, ATTAIN, AT LAST after a long year's wait, to harvest chestnuts and to fatten up the hogs and make them tastier with「chestnut-flavored lard」at hog-butchering time, causing the death of the obese animals.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to satisfy; to succeed; then; thereupon; finally; unexpectedly; to proceed; to reach
Japanese EDRDG: consummate, accomplish, attain, commit (suicide)
Unihan extended: comply with, follow along; thereupon
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: 24 entries
Chinese usage: 37 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 7 entries
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歲Similar glyphs with related meanings: 40 entries
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- Strokes: 12 ~ 13
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