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KA KU
ka do ・ tsu no
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Significantly, glyph seems to represent something resembling a SINGLE HORN, such as a narwhal might display (actually, the narwhal has a tusk, a tooth, and not a horn), inserted at just the right ANGLE in a place where only one horn is possible, not two, for various reasons and circumstances described in the respective paired element when used in other glyphs. Glyphs for animals such as deer (鹿) and moose (麗) with large antlers in fact do not use this glyph as an element, and for a good reason. 角 seems to never have been applied to any animal other than those with a single horn, such as the human male (note the English adjective, "horny" with the vulgar slang meaning of being desirous of sexual activity, in a condition of sexual arousal, provoking or intended to provoke sexual arousal, sexually eager or lustful, hornlike through hardening).
Elements combine and merge in all sorts of ways within:「imminent danger from head and neck, to a head and neck looking upward」(so as not to endanger the face and hair, if possible) from「rod in meat」or「head and neck erect in tension a long time with gasps, erect upward thrust, and a stream bodily fluids」or「head and neck danger of shortened rod meat」and so on, meaning gored by one HORN, or a「cavity plugged」with a HORN, perhaps one just created within a chest.
A horn sports one ANGLE (generally). A ROLE to play but not the starring role, with others in COMPETITION refer directly to the manner in which females strut breasts with pride and male herd animals battle with their HEAD BONES, the victor then copulating with all the gathered females in heat, the 'harem' animals in the herd.
A single HORN that, in most mammals, also contains baculum bone for head facilitating a full erection at a moment's notice, THE HORN protruding outward at roughly a ninety degree right ANGLE (the correct angle, as it were), forming a CORNER SQUARE. Not unlike the English term 'horny' and this element also refer to being SNAGGED or hooked within something, such as a hooker.
「Imminent danger」of「plugged rod meat or erection with gasps」also describes a BENT, CROOKED BONE or BONER HORN, one skewed at an angle or pulled to one side as a result of disease: scarring from sexually transmitted diseases can cause both a shortened penis and a bent or curled penis, especially when attempting to become erect. Gonorrhea and other such diseases cause scar tissue to form within the urethra:「Peyronie's Disease, …also known as 'Induratio penis plastica,' or more recently 'Chronic Inflammation of the Tunica Albuginea (CITA),' is a connective tissue disorder involving the growth of fibrous plaques in the soft tissue of the penis affecting up to 10% of men. Specifically, scar tissue forms in the tunica albuginea, the thick sheath of tissue surrounding the corpora cavernosa causing pain, abnormal curvature, erectile dysfunction, indentation, loss of girth and shortening. …The disease may cause pain. Hardened, big, cord-like lesions (scar tissue known as 'plaques'). Or abnormal curvature of the penis when erect due to chronic inflammation of the tunica albuginea (CITA). Although the popular conception of Peyronie's Disease is that it always involves curvature of the penis, the scar tissue sometimes causes divots or indentations rather than curvature. The condition may also make sexual intercourse painful and/or difficult…」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyronie%27s_disease 2012-08-15 ]
As both an ancient wine vessel that spurted its contents into one's open mouth (the tripod image is the client's three points of contact with the service provider, two knees and a short leg), and as a middle-pitched singing musical note, this glyph relates to its old counterpart 甪, the「head of a rod sliding into upper meat.」
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: role (theater); to compete; ancient three legged wine vessel; third note of pentatonic scale; angle; corner; horn; horn-shaped; unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan
Japanese EDRDG: angle, corner, square, horn, antler
Unihan extended: horn; angle, corner; point
Used within names (nanori)
い ・ す ・ すみ ・ ずみ ・ ふさ
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: 483 entries
Chinese usage: 357 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 47 entries
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