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「That」time of the「month」「that meat」or「my meat monthly」as the menstrual PERIOD or CYCLE. The EXPECTATION of, ANTICIPATED OCCURRENCE, and even HOPING for this particular time of the month was common among concubines who were the「possessions of meat」owned by a master, since it indicated that the person was not pregnant. Obviously, legal wives may have felt differently about conception. Scheduling tasks and harem maintenance needed to account for both the EXPECTATION of, ANTICIPATED OCCURRENCE of menstruation and ovulation cycles of each harem member. Reference to「that meat is mine」annually is today also associated with once-per-year events, such as commemorating one's wedding anniversary as a modern definition. Refers to most any possible length of time, such as a week, day, hour, season…therefore, thinking today that the right element means only 'month' rather than「meat」may be grossly misleading.
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: period; cycle; a period of time; phase; stage; (used for issue of a periodical, courses of study); time; term; period; to hope
Japanese: period, time, age, to expect, to look forward to, to set, to resolve, to pledge, to vow, to foresee, to anticipate, to set a time, to set a date, to decide upon, to prepare, to promise
Unihan extended: period of time; date; time limit
EDRDG: period; time; date; term
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.
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Japanese vocabulary: 506 entries
Chinese usage: 324 entries
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