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Underlying value of BANKNOTES, first issued by a merchant as a three-party draft ordering payment by a depositing bank to another merchant, but later becoming a local medium of exchange in place of actual gold or silver transfer, all merely a COPY of the others, having any value only due to the faith of the holders and those others in society who share that faith, but no substance in reality (it's only paper after all). Certainly the witch-doctoring sex-peddling soothsaying shamans enjoyed the profits of their various professions, collecting I.O.U.s that are the basis of paper currency: DEBT. Realizing that not all holders of the notes demanded payment at once, unscrupulous merchants issued more debt in the form of notes than was on deposit in actual gold or silver, and voila! the birth of the M1 money supply…with the wealthy parlaying that into what today has become digital meme currency, ethereal debits and credits, fantasy coins of bits and bytes in the digital cloud of non-reality. Money has always been smoke and mirrors based solely on the faith and gullibility of the holders, whether gold, silver, tulip bulbs, bits of paper or digital bits…but it functions in spite of all that. It could be argued however that herd meat assets of any variety, while perhaps continuously slowly depreciating in value, could be traded as wealth back in the old days, as they in fact were.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: money; paper money; variant of 抄
Japanese EDRDG: selection, summary, 1/10 shaku
Unihan extended: paper money, bank notes; copy
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: 4 entries
Chinese usage: 10 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 9 entries
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