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KE I ・ KYO U ・ SO U
a ki ra ka
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Also refers to a plant native to southern Asia, called VELVETLEAF, Abutilon avicennae, perhaps due to the soft velvety skin-like feel of its leaves and long erect stems covered with tiny, fine, short hair-like structures called「pubescence.」The seed buttons of the plant also strongly resemble a self-closing orifice of many female species. Stems yield strong natural fibers that can be pounded into threads: CHINA JUTE. An extremely competitive plant, stealing nutrients and water away from surrounding plants and considered to be a noxious weed. Occurs where the soil has been recently disturbed, and prefers clay-loam. Upper parts have an unpleasant odor. Descriptions of this plant might just as readily apply to a brothel client.
As an element, refers to ANIMAL BREEDING and STUD SERVICES, only accomplished while the female is in heat, during estrus while the vulva is naturally swollen, reddened, covered with mucus, glinting and flashing acceptance.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: velvetleaf (Abutilon avicennae), plant of the jute family; bright
Japanese EDRDG: light, clear, bright
Unihan extended: (archaic form of 炯) light, bright
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
Chinese usage: 6 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 23 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 24 entries
- Glyph.00999
- Strokes: 07
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