Login
Welcome! Introduction
Glyphs missing from your font set may appear strange, or not at all. We recommend enabling East Asian language support.
SE N
ya ma ni ra
Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]
LEEKS and perhaps WILD ONIONS are normally grown with the shafts deeply piled in soil:「The challenge when cooking with leeks is that they are almost always dirty. When leeks are grown, soil is piled up around them, so that more of the leek is hidden from the sun, and therefore lighter in color and more tender. What produces a beautiful leek, a long pale body, also results in sand and dirt been lodged deep inside the leek.」
[ https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_clean_leeks/ 2014-09-30 ]
LEEKS and WILD ONIONS have a small hard bulb at the root, making the whole shaft similar in appearance to the aroused penis of a canid with bulbus glandis engorged. LEEKS are green and white, and highly fibrous, perhaps the most fibrous of any edible plant, appearing as if the sheath flags are wrapped in figure-eights by long cloths of fiber, resembling a sick and gangrenous penis bound inside an herbal poultice. Leek roots also resemble a mass of thin, wadded threads:「…leeks do have lots of tenacious little roots so harvest requires a digging fork to loosen these hardy winter alliums. And it's a muddy task, not quite so dirty as parsnip digging but still dirty. …[W]inter leeks aren't things of beauty either, no longer the vigorous, tall spears of late summer but instead a bit bent with outer leaves flopped over, even slimy. Still, beneath this exterior they are perfectly fine, ready to harvest, trim and take to the kitchen. Their delicate, sweet fragrance wafts up as soon as they leave the ground and intensifies as trimming creates creamy white shafts topped with fans of green.」
[ https://lopezislandkitchengardens.com/tag/leek-rust/ 2023-05-18 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Japanese EDRDG: wild onions or leeks
Unihan extended: wild onions or leeks
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?
(More...)
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
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 4 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 26 entries
- Glyph.08892
- Strokes: 15
- other
Agree? Disagree? Express your opinion by posting a comment.
This publication has included material from the MDBG free online English to Chinese dictionary files in accordance with the license provisions of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
This publication has included material from the JMdict (EDICT, etc.) dictionary files in accordance with the license provisions of the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.
This publication has included material from the Unicode Character Database. Copyright © 1991-2016 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. Distributed under these Terms of Use.