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Meanings of elements
UNBOUND
Element that depicts something that has been LOOSENED and has become unbound, flapping, flopping, IN MOTION, free from bonds or restraint, something AMORPHOUS that is lacking a definite physical form and may freely change shape.
Perhaps intended as a simplified depiction of a busted up, no-longer-integrated foot in China that has has its bindings removed, or some other broken or diseased body part with its medical dressings removed for some reason, such as during an inspection or to apply fresh bandages, and is now free to flap about. By extending the meaning to other associated attributes of an unbound foot with the bones crushed, and, to a recently unbound diseased body part, the element that connotes both a relatively BAD SMELL, ODORIFEROUS (busted feet in China often were gangrenous, and became stinky for various other reasons as well; inside any long-used medical wrapping, poultice, or plaster cast will stink), something DISTORTED, MISSHAPEN, WARPED, NOT IN THE NORMAL SHAPE, DEFORMED (hiragana「ku く」shape is also used to represent the element).

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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