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Some have suggested「land emitted from land」perhaps as LAVA ejaculated from volcanoes that cooled to form land masses.
Note that in English, 'clod' can also refer to a clumsy or stupid person, perhaps from this glyph's meaning when used by returnees to England from China after opium sales were banned, with these elements as「screwing tipsy in shit」or,「twisting as if footless with opium」(十, 兀, 土).
One's「mushroom, mushrooming in shit.」Although the mushroom interpretation of the top elements is nice,「mushroom soil」seems to be failing as a description of a CLOD, COMPACTED SOIL, unless the mushroom here is a euphemism for a male's engorging erection used as a compacting tool ('coprophilous' means 'faeces loving'). Ingesting psychotropic mushrooms often relieves constipation, sometimes in a big way, and whether one was constipated to begin with, or not. Moreover, as a remedy for hard clods and clay,「mushroom soil」is excellent:
「If you are trying to improve the quality of turf growing in poor or marginal soils, consider using spent mushroom substrate (SMS) as a soil amendment. Spent mushroom substrate (sometimes called mushroom soil, recycled mushroom compost, or mushroom compost) can improve the structure of clay soils, reduce surface crusting and compaction, promote drainage, increase microbial activity, and provide nutrients to turfgrasses. These improvements promote faster turf establishment, improved turf density and color, increased rooting, and less need for fertilizer and irrigation.」
[ https://extension.psu.edu/spent-mushroom-substrate-as-a-soil-amendment-in-turf 2023-05-17 ]
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: a clod of earth; land
Unihan extended: a clod of earth; land
EDRDG: clod of earth; land
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 23 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 73 entries
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- Strokes: 08
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