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SE I ・ JO U
shi zu~ ・ shi zu ka ・ shi zu ma ru ・ shi zu me ru
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「Conflict, arguing until blue」might refer to passing out MOTIONLESS, unconscious due to apoplexy…but the more likely scenario is one of strangulation murder or some other cause of death of course, during which oxygen is deprived and the entire circulatory system turns blue as accumulated carbon dioxide associates with hemoglobin, SUPPRESSED air flow and motion, with the result being QUELLED, CALMED, now PEACEFUL and SERENE, and with NO FURTHER MOVEMENT anticipated from the blue corpse at least: a STIFF.
STATIC electrical discharges are most often「blue」and occur when two masses are「in conflict」in various ways, not unlike air masses during a thunderstorm, or combing fur.
「Prick meat in danger of reamer streaming」meaning STATIC and holding still prior to and during a session with a medical services provider using a bougie with an infected patient, an occasion when it is always wise to hold still.
Both element scenarios depict the aftereffects of a painful experience, something that QUIETS and causes STILLNESS, a lack of movement of any kind, SUPPRESSION of voluntary motion to avoid further pain, strongly encouraging a GENTLER and SUBMISSIVE attitude by obediently following the rules thereafter it is hoped by those remaining alive.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: still; calm; quiet; not moving
Japanese EDRDG: quiet
Unihan extended: quiet, still, motionless; gentle
Used within names (nanori)
しづ
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: 132 entries
Chinese usage: 77 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 1 entry
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