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RI N ・ HI N
ko me gu ra
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Scholars explain the top element as being a「silo, a seed storage facility with a phallus shape.」While there would possibly be some reason to keep the grain on stalks in storage, it is more likely that only threshed grain was stored inside and straw fodder outside, so the lower element seems to refer euphemistically to something other than literal grain stalks. Apparently related with「grain silo elevated on small mound」(禀) raised above the surroundings to keep the contents drier and longer-lasting by a NATURAL MEANS, a MATTER THAT OCCURS IN DUE COURSE.
Elements in traditional glyphs also appear as「palm down many times around thousand emissions」to depict a report, information or other type of document circulated among many people requiring each person's approval or acknowledgement that the contents have been read, understood, or agreement in the due course of business, or naturally because the boss says so. The「palming down with emissions」in that case refers to stamping the document with one's seal chop, or inkan in Japanese as proof or acknowledgement, or in the modern vernacular: rubber-stamping one's approval.
「Male role and gonorrhea」as TO ENDOW, RECEIVE AS AN INBORN TRAIT AT BIRTH refers to a mother contracting gonorrhea from a male and then passing it along to the fetus at birth as it passes through the vaginal canal, a major cause of infant blindness as the bacteria colonizes the mucous membranes in the baby's eye sockets.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to make a report (to a superior); to give; to endow; to receive; petition
Japanese EDRDG: salary in rice
Unihan extended: report to, petition
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: 11 entries
Chinese usage: 9 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 6 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
- Glyph.06835
- Strokes: 13
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