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「Sputtering in pain and cocky attitude」also describes some patients experiences with DOCTORS.「Dart, arrow contained in crotch skin of cock」may suggest the sacrifice and dismemberment of a chicken, used to divine the future by soothsayers and witch doctors (no kidding):
In China,「…it is widely agreed that [chicken] domestication was carried out not for culinary purposes, but for obtaining a ready supply of birds for divination and cock fighting, and that only later were their flesh and eggs of primary importance…roosters and hens in every family, whose utility goes beyond their value as food. Chickens and eggs are used ritually in divination, to cure disease, to retrieve the lost soul of a sick child, to seal a marriage ceremony, and to guide the newly deceased family member's soul to find the ancestral land.」
[ https://www.proquest.com/docview/1095107836 2023-05-17 ]
Perhaps「finality of cock illness is alcohol」as medical advice that nothing more can be tried, so just stay drunk or drink to death…the ultimate healing and cure, the one that stops all pain now and forever, one's final exit.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: medical; medicine; doctor; to cure; to treat
Japanese EDRDG: medicine
Unihan extended: cure, heal; doctor, medical
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: 99 entries
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- Strokes: 18
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