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[ https://www.finedictionary.com/Scirpus.html 2017-03-29 ]
「Plenty, surplus of emerging shafts」refers to SEDGE, a plant that thrives in marsh muck:「Features distinguishing members of the sedge family from grasses or rushes are stems with triangular cross-sections (with occasional exceptions) and leaves that are spirally arranged in three ranks (grasses have alternate leaves forming two ranks).」
[ https://www.finedictionary.com/Scirpus.html 2013-09-15 ]
「Emerging shafts with lordosis position」would accommodate many clients comfortably, one using each foot with a third in the center, or the mouth, in the armpits, between breasts in some cases, and so on.
Chestnuts oaks being indigenous to North America were not likely found in China thousands of years ago, but small chestnuts are covered with a husk having「pricks in all directions」similar to sedge, and perhaps to service providers in the lordosis position, shafts planted in marshy muck.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Scirpis maritimus; small chestnut
Japanese EDRDG: chestnut oak
Unihan extended: chestnut oak
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.
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 10 entries
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