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BONE with KNEECAP
…or: BONE with CONSENT, READY WILLING AND ABLE TO DO from GUEST DIGNITARY, THE OBJECT
…or: BONE WITH MEAT, KNACK SKILL TRICK SECRET KNOW-HOW, SPIRIT FORTITUDE, SKELETAL with CLIENT, VISITOR, GUEST, DIGNITARY, THE OBJECT with SOMETHING THAT OUGHT TO BE STOPPED inside
「Bone meat of fleshpot lacking peace and calm」who cannot bear to stay and tries to escape (a bad investment, wasted resources): punishment reserved for twice-escaped and twice-recaptured slaves who「stayed only temporarily and then departed」as do「visitors and guests.」Punishment reserved for those visitors as guests who were unable to pay their account with the proprietress,「bone meat of deliberately out-of-reach one」or「one in-house under the roof」with 「insufficient funds」and as a consequence the ex-client's knees were crushed with a heavy blunt instrument as settlement of the bad debt. Perhaps source of the English term DEADBEAT.
Hobbling both runaway slaves and deceitful clients was a highly effective method of identification within the community, but especially assisted bouncers at the door of any business establishment to prevent re-entry of an unwanted visitor. Deadbeats and twice-recaptured slaves would then be compelled to move about only with the use of his or her arms while dragging the lower portion of the body forward along the ground, resembling a mudskipper (a species of fish that can perambulate on land for a while but leaves a telltale track in its wake). While not too good for maintaining the condition of the skin or any clothing worn on one's lower body, it did encourage shoulder and arm muscle development at the expense of thickly-calloused hand palms, eventually, assuming the individual survived that long. Suggested as the original intent and source of the English contractual law term「without recourse」since a person so hobbled could no longer move themselves in reverse, nor return to the brothel for admittance (subsequently, the legal definition evolved somewhat).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: kneecapping; to cut or smash the kneecaps as corporal punishment
Japanese EDRDG: kneecap
Unihan extended: kneecap

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? (More...) 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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