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GYO U ・ GO U
wa za
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Humanity's first BUSINESS OCCUPATION, PROFESSION was that of prostitution, but very soon followed by pimping when those possessing power understood the vast opportunity at hand by corralling those prostitutes as a herd of meat assets and offering them for short-term rentals to clients as multi-faceted service providers.
Scholars offer all sorts of explanations for this glyph that combine OCCUPATION, BUSINESS ventures of a shaman, and/or「multiple eruptions」「praiseworthy with sheep」and「emit, emissions」as a truly PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE, an energetic release of one's superlative TECHNIQUES demonstrated with ewes or herons, or a person's OCCUPATION, BUSINESS with clients, fellow employees, the boss, all equated with ovine or oscine zooerastia as the chosen object of affection.
One's KARMA as an expression that perhaps, one day, the ewes and chicks will finally have their revenge, or already have had some revenge in the form of the spread of chancres and gleet emissions after these praiseworthy performances. KARMA: if one tups with sheep, expect syphilis. If one schtups with PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE chicks, expect gonorrhea and most anything else living within those mucus membranes.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: line of business; industry; occupation; job; employment; school studies; enterprise; property; (Buddhism) karma; deed; to engage in; already
Japanese EDRDG: business, vocation, arts, performance
Unihan extended: profession, business, trade
Used within names (nanori)
なり ・ のぶ
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: 916 entries
Chinese usage: 271 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 3 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 21 entries
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- Strokes: 13
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