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KI N ･ GO N
nu ru ･ ne ba tsu chi
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[ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/deadliest-earthquake-in-history-rocks-china 2011-01-18 ]
The death toll becomes even more remarkable when you consider the estimated total worldwide population in 1556 prior to that single seismic event in one locale…seems like there were still an awful lot of pit hole homes in Asia only 500 years ago, and still today:「In north China, especially on the Loess Plateau, caves called yaodongs dug into hillsides have been the traditional dwellings from early times. The advantage of a yaodong over an ordinary house is that it needs little heating in winter and no cooling at all in summer. An estimated 40 million people in northern China live in a yaodong. Many people live in semi-recessed dugout houses in north-western China where hot summer and cold winters prevail.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_house 2012-07-02 ]
In ancient Japan:「The Early Jōmon is the first stage…of Japanese pre-history…[and] ranged from 10,000 to 300 BC…. This period saw a rise in complexity in the design of pit houses, the most commonly used method of housing at the time.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dmon_period 2012-07-02 ]
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: bury; plaster with mud
Unihan extended: to build with soil, plaster over with mud
EDRDG: build with soil; plaster over with soil
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
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 30 entries
- Glyph.07938
- Strokes: 14
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