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GA ・ KA KU ・ E ・ KA I
e ga ku ・ ka ku su ru ・ ka gi ru ・ ha ka ri go to ・ ha ka ru
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DRAWING A DIAGRAM of graphic DESCRIPTIONS of various sexual activity and the ensuing problems of infection, since no one could read yet, the government authorities needed to literally DRAW A PICTURE of places on a MAP in demarcation zones that were off-limits, the activities that caused the transfer of infection, and how to identify the symptoms of disease. Relates to the English expression,「I get the picture.」Notices were posted publicly that announced severing access to off-limit areas by posting armed patrols at the red-lined borders, planned on a map of infected areas. Government attempts to control the spread of infectious disease, mostly contracted at the brothels. Troublesome and unpopular, but worth the effort for slowing down the spread of contagion.
Some suggest this is somehow a diagram for reaping farm fields, but at the time of the early cave artists, nobody was farming any fields, or any terraced slopes either for that matter…
[ https://www.science.org/content/article/engravings-female-genitalia-may-be-worlds-oldest-cave-art 2023-05-17 ]
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: to draw; picture; painting; classifier for paintings etc; variant of 劃|划
Unihan extended: delineate, painting, picture, drawing; draw
EDRDG: picture; sketch; drawing; stroke; mark; divide
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.
Primal elements
Chinese usage: 104 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 1 entry
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 4 entries
- Glyph.05715
- Strokes: 12
- old_forms
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