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KYO U
ka na e ru ・ ka na u
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Finally being able to「screw with an orifice」of one sort or another might also be GRANTING A WISH and HARMONIZING.
Elements do not clearly depict any obvious sort of LEAF as listed in external meanings, other than perhaps a「mouth full」as it relates to a ruminant or some other cud-chewing animal species, but that combination is merely speculative and requires a great inductive leap in logic based upon these elements. Chinese add the meaning of a loose-leaf type of binder holding many different pages, or「leaves」of writing material, with holes perforating each leaf/page where a leather thong or string binds all the pages into a book. Each leaf will have「orifices that twist」as the pages are turned. Such books may have contained family registry details, and having one's page added to suggest marriage may also have been GRANTING A WISH to HARMONIZE with the family by finally WINNING THE FAVOR OF ANOTHER, such as one's mother-in-law, but once again, these elements are a far leap from all that. If you have a thought about the meanings from these elements, send us an email.
HARMONY is a relationship characterized by a lack of conflict, and while generally today thought of as a good ideal, harmony is not necessarily the result of all good or benign influences—a harmony of evil can and does occur quite often in the world, with all participants not in conflict about a common goal or purpose. See the similar glyphs.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: leaf; page; lobe; (historical) period; to be in harmony
Japanese EDRDG: grant, answer
Unihan extended: to harmonize, to rhyme; to unite; (borrowed for) leaf
Used within names (nanori)
かの ・ かのう
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: 7 entries
Chinese usage: 130 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 10 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 25 entries
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- Strokes: 05
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