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HYA KU ・ BYA KU
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Given the inherently crass nature of virtually all other Chinese glyphs, another possibility is certainly no less believable than scholarly explanations: consider the elements as「lateral reciprocating rod motions, indicates extent」with「emphasis on a tonguing mouth, open-mouthed, conspicuous, white, blank, empty, staring in a stupor, to make clear, emphasis on reciprocating rod in orifice」as the average count of reciprocating strokes needed to produce a「conspicuously white rod」and its discharge, to clear the inner pathway, to cause a torpid state of being, and so on as ONE HUNDRED. Leave it to the dynastic Chinese sages to conduct such a research study in order to report the average results in this glyph. Moreover, it should be fairly easy to verify their findings at home. Japanese pronunciation equates this glyph with the「upper thigh」also, for what that is worth, in case any male in Japan has some difficulty locating where to stroke. Any other suggestions are welcome to explain these elements as ONE HUNDRED.
Significantly, this is a decidedly male count only, as the female equivalent increases by an order of magnitude to one thousand, naturally…see 千 and its used-in glyphs for all the details.
Some scholars claim that in the very old days of China, HUNDRED was indicated by a thumb pointed upward and did not always signify an obscene gesture (such as, 'stuff it up yer anus' or 'yer cock is this short' or 'y'all go and jerk-off now'), therefore, elements of「one rod segment arrayed conspicuously white whilst in a state of torpor」meant 100, supposing that all refers to a thumbnail, and the thumbnail refers to one hundred. Without question, this explanation requires some long leaps of inductive reasoning if it is to be believed, and seems apocryphal at best.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: hundred; numerous; all kinds of
Japanese EDRDG: hundred
Unihan extended: one hundred; numerous, many
Used within names (nanori)
お ・ ど ・ どう ・ なり ・ ひゃっ ・ ひゅく ・ も ・ もんど ・ ゆ
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: 235 entries
Chinese usage: 288 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 21 entries
- Glyph.00671
- Strokes: 06
- jlpt-N5 grade_01
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