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「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary…, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
Perhaps, as some suggest, needed for passing along data and increasing the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge, thought and reasoning, facilitating the ability to learn from the experiences of others by exercising intelligence and creating a written record of what started all the trouble so that future generations could avoid the same mistakes by looking at the symbols and then following the instructions recorded within the glyphs…but if so, why make them so cryptic, difficult to remember, and wait so long before using them to form sentences? perhaps, as others suggest, designed first as an intellectual exercise, a challenging game among a clever group to see if the others could figure out the meaning behind these 47,000 images compiled over millennia, a sort of mental puzzle designed to incite bawdy laughter after the riddle is decrypted—earliest examples found on archeological artifacts all occur singly, unconnected and not expressing a sentence, as if the creator had inscribed a new glyph on a bone, shell, or piece of pottery and brought it to present before his buddies, in turn, as they all presented their new glyphs of the day for discussion, mental stimulation, and another round of laughter and wine with jokes centered around sex (and things did not changed much since then, until the last few years that is). First known combinations forming a sentence structure are dated thousands of years later than the so-called「oracle bones」(literally, deliberately enigmatic statements and allegories scratched into bone—they even told us of today what the glyphs were! worship of divine divas! foretelling the future!). A similar glyph,「river, endless flow of intercourse」(訓) also describes sex as inherent in CHINESE CHARACTER GLYPHS.
As a courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged twenty years in dynastic China after becoming an adult, i.e., after reaching full physically maturity and「surrounded by rod in full-cycle, spermatozoa in a rolling stream」as these elements individually depict. No mention is made either way of whether the man can actually read and write glyphs as might a sage (of course, the pundits explain this meaning of the glyph as a child wearing a scholar's square academic mortarboard cap, ignoring the fact that this glyph came from China thousands of years ago).
「Deliberately out-of-reach」with「child」to indicate OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN, that these WRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTERS as kanji glyphs are above the level of comprehension possessed by a normal child, and/or that children should be kept out of reach of males aged twenty years or more in dynastic China.
「Deliberately out-of-reach of children」or more likely in dynastic China,「children」specially trained and kept「deliberately out of reach.」…refers to a SPECIAL SECTION, or a VILLAGE, districts, zones, quarters within a larger city or town surrounded by walls and gateways as checkpoints, restricted entryways. A self-contained city area as a separate community having its own specialized business establishments that cater to a specific kind or class of patron, but also its own local laws, government regulations, customs, and even language at times that apply within an administrative division at the local government level, patrolled by enforcers.
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: letter; symbol; character; word; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
Japanese: section of village, Chinese courtesy name, nickname, section of a village, character, hand-writing, penmanship, the … word
Unihan extended: letter, character, word
EDRDG: character; letter; word; section of village
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.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 720 entries
Chinese usage: 458 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 4 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 26 entries
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- Strokes: 06
- jlpt-N4 grade_01
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