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「End-to-end, side-to-side with bound foot」depicts a used and LOOSENED, long cloth that has just been removed from the no-longer-integrated foot of a concubine or service provider and therefore cannot hang straight, and is full of CURVES, ARCHED SHAPES due to having been wrapped around a foot for a long time, likely in need of washing. Describes the ARC SHAPE of no-longer-integrated feet when wrapped very tightly with a long cloth「in extreme tension a long time causing gasps.」Refers to anything having a CRESCENT shape, or a stringed musical instrument, perhaps an early version of an erhu, also any sort of STRINGED BOW such as for playing a violin. does not refer to an ARCHERY BOW in every usage case…assuming so will cause some confusion.
This element substitutes in some modernized glyphs to replace「backbone」and「connected」(呂 related glyphs) which also resemble the shape of a no-longer-integrated foot and mean ARCHED, BENT OVER and likely IN NEED OF WASHING. Additionally, this element is used to replace genital orifices (㠯, also often having a curved shape), used in the same manner as the were the no-longer-integrated feet up until recently (the feet, that is).
Note that with the cloth bindings removed, the no-longer-integrated feet are now ready for action, hence that condition of readiness is also signified by this glyph used as an element:「Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
Depicts a foot after the bindings had been removed to expose the deep slit created by bending the no-longer-integrated foot over and forming a warm, moist pouch within the sole of the foot, a small 'scoop for fluids' as it were. Note the similarity with 己,「decrepit condition of a penis」instead of the decrepit condition of a no-longer-integrated foot, and that the poor quality of the condition of each was likely the cause of the other. Both 己 and 弓 represent bent and disfigured body parts that perhaps coincidentally were fitted together as complements by the shamans in life and sages for writing.
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: a bow (weapon)
Japanese: bow, unit of distance to an archery target, unit of distance for land surveying, hacksaw
Unihan extended: bow; curved, arched
EDRDG: bow; bow (archery, violin)
Used within names (nanori)
こ ・ ゆ
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.
Japanese vocabulary: 87 entries
Chinese usage: 46 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 202 entries
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