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A KU ・ O
wa ru i ・ a shi ・ ni ku i ・ a a ・ i zu ku ni ・ i zu ku n zo
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「Crooked-hearted, substandard mind or spirit」as the sub-class, BAD, EVIL.
Or, the money-grubbing heart of a faceless, bloodsucking mercenary pit hole construction contractor. Top element may depict a hole in the ground (used as homes in ancient China and Japan) that is of substandard quality not in compliance with the local building code, in that the sides are not straight vertically: a pit or hole lined with stones for a home, with sides that curve inward on top (admittedly, slightly exaggerated in this element), is「bad」in that the top portion is likely to cave in (especially during a rainstorm) and collapse on top of the sleeping inhabitants, filling the hole at least partially with mud, stones and water, allowing mosquitoes, pernicious grain silo maggots and renegade scorpions to enter the hole, creating a situation of poor quality if the inhabitant and family have the desire to continue sleeping: from BAD to WORSE. Think about it. At first it was bad enough that you were sleeping in a hole in the ground, but now, the kids are screaming, the wife is nagging, the rainwater is pouring in, mosquitoes are buzzing in your ears, mud is falling into your corn flakes…and in the afternoon you can't watch the ball game because you have to patch up the 'hole' house again: BAD, a LOW-QUALITY SITUATION.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to hate; to loathe; ashamed; to fear; to slander; evil; fierce; vicious; ugly; coarse; to harm; see 惡心|恶心
Japanese EDRDG: bad, evil
Unihan extended: evil, wicked, bad, foul
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: 7 entries
Chinese usage: 130 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 3 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
恶Similar glyphs with related meanings: 62 entries
- Glyph.07935
- Strokes: 14 ~ 12
- grade_10
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