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「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, 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 ]
「Deep feeling of being integrated」with close family ties. To BECOME HABITUATED to one's surroundings and to the ones who are surrounding you. INERTIA with INDULGENCE is lubricious activity without ever leaving the comfort and privacy of one's home (安).
「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.」
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And from another family member's perspective: the TAMED「deep feeling of being penetrated as a fleshpot」and BECOMING HABITUATED to one's DOMESTICATED circumstances in life, BECOMING SKILLED AND EXPERIENCED.「Deep feeling with small youthful mons pubis, stream of emissions penetrating fleshpots」as INDULGENT, INDULGING, and「are you experienced?」
「Historical accounts from the 18th century indicate that adult-child sex (particularly same-sex pairings) were an accepted practice in China, Japan, Africa, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the Islamic areas of India (Trumbach, 1977). In 19th century London the going price for a virginal, 12-year-old girl, of good background, was reported to be 400 pounds (Bullough, 1964).」
[ https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/legal-social-and-biological-definitions-pedophilia 2012-01-01 ]
Contrary to some suggestions, most likely these elements do not refer to someone's「deep feeling of being pierced and strung up for the fleshpot as supper」since such a condition does not generally afford the victim a repeat performance, and therefore he or she could not have the opportunity to become habituated to it. However, the person who performs the stringing up of meat every night, that is, the family butcher, naturally will BECOME HABITUATED to such gruesome work. Right elements are also an old unit of weight measurement equivalent to approximately 3.75Kg, or about 8 pounds, that may depict chunks of flesh pierced and strung together for use as supper meat by a butcher that could be easily carried for trade, and then raised and lowered into the cooking cauldron to determine doneness (a rump roast, for example).
Some scholars suggest this glyph depicts the painful condition of wearing a string of sharp-edged 8-pound seashells tied around one's neck, although this assumes that human beings were even more stupid than they are today, a judgement that is without basis in fact. More likely in that case,「being or doing something unpleasant all the time, and being forced to BECOME HABITUATED to it」such as an escaped slave's tongue piercing, a leash ring punched through the ear or septum, a tattoo on the forehead, etc., as was the case with escaped slaves, prisoners and manacles, oxen with nose rings, a dog on a leash or tied or imprisoned in a backyard pen, bit and reins in a horse's mouth, living in a foreign land and being unable to read, a bought-and-sold concubine as sex meat, and perhaps the most noticeable case of all, the INERTIA that has replaced the spirit of most animals confined in a zoo: all examples of being TAMED, DOMESTICATED the「unforgettable feeling of being strung-up meat.」
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: accustomed to; used to; indulge; to spoil (a child)
Japanese: practice, practising, experience, to imitate, to follow, to emulate, running-in, breaking in, accustomizing, warming up, to accustom, experienced, practiced, practised, familiar, to grow accustomed, to get too familiar with, to get used, to become domesticated, to become tame, habit, customary practice, to make learn, being used to …, getting used to …, being accustomed to, being conditioned to, be familiar with
Unihan extended: habit, custom; habitually, usually
EDRDG: accustomed; get used to; become experienced
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: 82 entries
Chinese usage: 29 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 33 entries
- Glyph.08209
- Strokes: 14
- jlpt-N3 grade_05
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