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SE TSU ・ SHO U
o sa me ru ・ ka ne ru ・ to ru
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「Talented hand use」with「ear」and「emissions in all directions」as some GOSSIP perhaps by cupping one's hand over the speaker's mouth and listener's ear, then to another ear, and another, and so on.「Use hands for whispering」as in cupping one's hand around one's ear as someone holds their hand cupped around their mouth and whispers into your cupped ear, with 'act as a PROXY' derived from the chain of taking news by someone who is not the original source to another person who assimilates that news.
「Talented hand use with fluttering, rustling sounds, emissions in all directions」meaning PROXY, TO ACT FOR ANOTHER, ADMINISTER TO ANOTHER PERSON and TO ASSIST, ACTING AS A SURROGATE also relates to circle jerking, often compared by military actions by the sages in glyphs…see 欇, 爽, and 交 for details.
Right element formerly was「three ears」(攝) meaning「from ear to ear to ear」as with「whispering some rumors, gossip, rustling sounds.」And「talented hand use that generates a whispering sound」surely does seem as if that hand may be sliding up and down a shaft of some sort. Japanese version replaces the lower elements with「emit in all directions」perhaps representing gossip in addition to, literally emissions in all directions.「Ear」resembles the shape of a vertical flag attached to a pole used in China and Japan to identify soldiers as belonging to one side or the other of a battle, and「use both hands」with「many flags, ears」means to TAKE IN, ASSIMILATE and use as SURROGATES, PROXIES those soldiers who suddenly switched sides during a battle, a rather common occurrence it seems throughout history. Rumors of the enemy's strength spreading through the troops from man-with-flag to man-with-flag (or, ear to ear) may well have been the reason for the defections or desertions. Clearly, rumors would spread much faster among foot soldiers facing death while huddled among the trees awaiting an order to charge up a heavily fortified steep hill much more quickly (in seconds) than scattered serfs hoeing gardens among the hills and valleys (may take years) sparsely populated with old folks.
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: Japanese variant of 攝|摄
Japanese: to have, to take
Unihan extended: take in, absorb; act as deputy
EDRDG: vicarious; surrogate; act in addition to
Used within names (nanori)
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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.
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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.
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Japanese vocabulary: 27 entries
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