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RYO U
a ki ra ka ・ ma ko to ni
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Religious folks perhaps read this glyph as「capital words」being those of FORGIVENESS. Or perhaps「words about the big, capital city」to mean UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES of a problem. Any talk about a large, unnatural concentration of human beings living upon a「man-made pile of dirt」will necessarily be concerned with understanding the causes of all the problems, missing the point that there simply are too many people in too small of an area in most cases. Meaning FORGIVENESS but not likely any healing or correction for all those causes of woe, since it's just 'too late' to change the patterns of human society without a collapse first, or, to relocate the capital. Forgiveness means「pardon for doing something wrong. The act of excusing a mistake or an error」(sounds like most capital cities) but not correcting anything necessarily. It seems as if the sages did not agree with piling up people in big cities, such as the capital. All one can do is FORGIVE AFTER UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES.
Elements as「sex in the city」depicts all possibilities, all types, anything goes and everyone comes, but because the humans involved are living in the big city, consider the circumstances, UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES of what is likely today considered to be highly immoral or deviant behavior, or simply the rampant spread of disease, and as a result find it within ourselves to extend FORGIVENESS for all that occurs. Pack people in a human zoo like sardines and what do you expect will happen?…visit the nearest monkey house if still in doubt, watch the bonobos awhile, and remember the wise old Chinese analect from antiquity:「either live it, or live with it.」
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to forgive; to understand
Japanese EDRDG: fact, reality, understand, appreciate
Unihan extended: excuse, forgive; guess, presume
Used within names (nanori)
あき ・ まさ ・ まこと
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: 9 entries
Chinese usage: 5 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 15 entries
- Glyph.09243
- Strokes: 15
- jlpt-N2 grade_09
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