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KA TSU
wa ru ・ wa ri ・ wa ri ・ wa re ru ・ sa ku
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It seems today that 1/10 as the proportion of the populace with a sexually transmitted infection is a bit low, at least in the United States of America:
「One in two sexually active persons will contract an STI by age 25. …Researchers estimate that at least 80% of sexually active people will have an HPV infection at some point in their lifetime. CDC data for 2013–2014 show that about 42% of men and 40% of women aged 18-59 had genital HPV at that time. …About 1 in 8 people aged 14-49 in the U.S. has genital herpes. …Symptoms of genital herpes often go unnoticed. Most people with genital herpes—close to 90%—don't know they have the infection. Globally, researchers estimate that about two-thirds of the population under age 50—more than 3.7 billion people—are infected with HSV-1. Some 140 million people aged 15-49 are infected with genital HSV-1, primarily in the Americas, Europe and Western Pacific. …In 2015, rates of the three most common reportable STIs—chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis—reached a record high level. The approximately 1.5 million reported cases of chlamydia represent the highest number of annual cases of any condition ever reported to CDC. …Young people ages 15 to 24 years old accounted for 65% of chlamydia diagnoses and 50% of gonorrhea diagnoses in 2015.」And so on.
[ https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/health/health2/documents/std-trends-2015-cdc.pdf 2019-12-04 ]
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 cut; to cut apart
Japanese: rate, ratio, proportion, percentage, profit, assignment, 0.1, unit of ten percent, match, schedule of matches, diluted with, mixed with, to cut up, to cleave, to cut open, to spare, to use part of something, to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye, relatively, comparatively, in proportion, to divide, to break, to halve, to separate, to split, to rip, to crack, to smash, to dilute, broken piece, quite, rather, to be separated, to be divided, cooking, cuisine, to be smashed, to fissure, to be torn, to come to light, to be identified, to be established, to become clear, to be worth it, to pay, cleft grafting, crown grafting, splittable chopsticks
Unihan extended: cut, divide, partition; cede
EDRDG: proportion; comparatively; divide; cut; separate; split
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
Japanese vocabulary: 436 entries
Chinese usage: 47 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 16 entries
- Glyph.05836
- Strokes: 12
- jlpt-N3 grade_06
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