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Alternatively, some suggest「silk threads with responsibility, liability」as a reference to spinning silk with the responsibility for ACHIEVING RESULTS after taking possession of a mess of cocoons from someone else, as if that occurred often.
In a more figurative sense, if there are liabilities, one also must achieve some level of a continuing thread of good PERFORMANCE in order to repay the debt from profits, arguably one of many measures of RESULTS, PERFORMANCE, so that「threads attached to liabilities」are those requiring POSITIVE RESULTS or else a business fails and dies (admittedly, a rather weak interpretation).
「Ejaculation with liability, responsibility」or「threads, ropes」with「pricks and fleshpot」may refer to the practice of capturing a young girl, boy, or ewe lamb and tying her or him to a heavy three-legged cauldron for the purpose of engaging in any sort of sexual activity that one might fantasize about (see related glyph 夢) without a continuous battle. Tying a youth or ewe to a cauldron so that no escape is possible does entail assuming some level of responsibility, however minimal in comparison to the other actions that follow…nevertheless, early humans believed that this practice was reasonable, mostly since it allowed the perpetrator(s) free use of both hands, snacking and imbibing in various beverages without spillage, full motility on both feet, rest periods and restarting without additional setup time and effort, participation among members of a group of buddies, etc.: ACHIEVING RESULTS, good PERFORMANCE, a method with MERIT that nearly always enabled the intended purposes to be ACCOMPLISHED, however insidious they may be. Note that operating a business today with the sole goal of short-term profit/pleasure also contributes to the rape of the environment, abuse of employees, and screwing society on various levels, not to mention the ewe or youth.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to spin (hemp etc); merit; accomplishment; grade
Japanese EDRDG: exploits, achievements, unreeling cocoons
Unihan extended: spin; achievements
Used within names (nanori)
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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: 41 entries
Chinese usage: 18 entries
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- Glyph.10860
- Strokes: 17
- jlpt-N3 grade_05
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