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Applying the literal meaning of the left element as「sexual foreplay」with the right element「to the maximum limit」makes sense as LESSONS in all the various aspects and forms of sexual activity as all the various CHAPTERS, SECTIONS of COURSEWORK to be learned and practiced by the shaman's apprentices as FORMS OF DIVINATION, that is, as providers of divine services. And, recall that in the post-cavefolk era there was little else to study other than sex after everyone was fed. Consulting with someone divine were the first work/study programs operated by religious shamans IMPOSED upon young females as an absolute necessity to improve chances of a profitable marriage or a profitable sale as a slave or concubine. To INVESTIGATE BY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE and not shifting that responsibility is also the duty of SECTIONS or DIVISIONS within a business (seemingly, a particularly Japanese meaning).
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: subject; course; class; lesson; to levy; tax; form of divination
Japanese: lesson, section, division, department, counter for lessons and chapters, to levy, to charge, to assess, to impose, to assign
Unihan extended: lesson; course; classwork
EDRDG: chapter; lesson; section; department; division; counter for chapters (of a book)
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: 103 entries
Chinese usage: 56 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 60 entries
- Glyph.09191
- Strokes: 15
- jlpt-N3 grade_04
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