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「…Emus ingest stones, glass shards and bits of metal to grind food in the digestive system [girls with no-longer-integrated feet wrapped these objects under the toes to deliberately cause gangrene]. They drink infrequently, but take in copious fluids when the opportunity arises [girls with no-longer-integrated feet were exceptionally well-trained as a fellatrix]. Emus will sit in water and are also able to swim [girls with no-longer-integrated feet were required to sit for long sessions in the fluids draining down the legs and pooling under the buttocks]. They are curious birds who are known to follow and watch other animals and humans. Emus do not sleep continuously at night but in several short stints sitting down [emus awake and arise up to eight times per night in order to feed or defecate]. Emus use their strongly clawed feet as a defence mechanism. Their legs are among the strongest of any animal, allowing them to rip metal wire fences. …Emus…are not monogamous. Fighting among females for a mate is common. …[T]hey are the only birds with gastrocnemius muscles in the back of the lower legs [dual bulging calf muscles]. …The emu also has a tracheal pouch, which becomes more prominent during the mating season. It is often used during courting…」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu 2015-05-16 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: see 鴯鶓|鸸鹋
Unihan extended: emu
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: 2 entries
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- Glyph.12643
- Strokes: 20 ~ 19
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