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Perhaps an「array of rods in netting」of groin poultices (罒) that also infers DROPS FALLING and something ESSENTIAL, a thing of VALUE therapeutically.
Used to replace different glyphs, both meaning SOMETHING OF VALUE, ESSENTIAL or simply DROPS FALLING. (1) most commonly used as a replacement for「dew from heaven, sticky fluid down from spread legs, rain from Mother Earth」(雨) as applied to both rain as ESSENTIAL DROPS FALLING, and to both male and female orgasmic discharges of「sticky fluid down from spread legs.」(2) Some fonts use this to replace the element of「broken wine jar」(襾) with the bottom portion of the jar missing to create an open orifice, and would also account for the meanings of DROPS FALLING, now something ESSENTIAL was lacking (for some folks), and so another unopened wine jar is NEEDED, NECESSARY, ESSENTIAL, VALUED by the imbiber…note that spilled Chinese wine is a brown and sticky fluid. Scholars claim this as two hands holding a severed head with falling drops of blood, also with sticky fluids.
And, here is a good example of the same thing in English as with kanji glyphs. How many English speakers know that "fundamental" is the adjectival form of "fundament"? Even more fundamental than that are the questions of what is a fundament, and can you get along without one? That is exactly WHY a fundament was selected to represent the meaning of "fundamental." But, who thinks of that when the word "fundamentally" is used (as basic and essential as a fundament)? Probably, only those without one.
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
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 148 entries
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- Glyph.00203
- Strokes: 07 ~ 06
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