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A「container for holding contents a brief time」as a BUCKET used for collecting feces, among other functions (「protruding buttocks, in use.」…think about it).
From time immemorial before the beginning, humans have collected feces and used it as fertilizer. Still today, researchers are working on finding solutions for problems facing humanity. It is not only feces that are an excellent fertilizer. Urine works, too! "Innovative system turns human waste into sustainable fertilizer: Stanford researchers have developed a prototype that harnesses urine to generate valuable fertilizer, offering solutions for sanitation and energy in resource-limited regions."
[ https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/08/prototype-urine-human-waste-fertilizer-sustainable-energy-research/ 2025-08-21 ]
「Person kneeling on all fours」after「shuttling」past a「gateway」(now closed, being 'in use' of course) and「using」the services within, perhaps by shuttling around to the various groups.
SHUTTLE as in regularly moving back and forth over an established, short route, one well-known and often used, to mean PASSING THROUGH but only remaining for a brief time in any one place.
Alternatively yet unlikely, some suggest the「shuttle」of a loom「in use」to pass the weft threads through the warp threads. The shuttle continually was used to PASS THROUGH from one side of a loom to the other, guided by the warp threads above the「spread legs」of a person operating the loom and treading on the treadles (not much to do with buckets, unfortunately).
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: path screened by walls on both sides; variant of 桶, bucket; (classifier) cubic dry measure (5 pecks 五斗, approx. half-liter); the Yongjiang river 甬江 through Ningbo 寧波|宁波; abbr. for Ningbo
Unihan extended: path; river in Ningbo; Ningbo
EDRDG: road with walls on both sides
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
Chinese usage: 4 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 25 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 61 entries
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- Strokes: 07
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