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FU KU ・ HYO KU ・ HI KI
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An element meaning FULLNESS, FILLED, ABUNDANCE.「Array of orifices」with the lower element COMPLETELY FILLED ORIFICE. In Chinese this glyph refers vulgarly to a VAGINA, as PUSSY or CUNT as perhaps depicted by an orifice that appears closed by flesh pressing laterally from all sides and COMPLETELY FILLING one or both cavities located just below the clitoral bean (豆), found deep within the fundaments of a lord's harem (豊) and in the no-longer-integrated feet of his concubines (匐).
Related and substitute glyph is「genital hole」(屄), nevertheless. Some insist these elements must be one mouth in a rice paddy. But frankly, unless that of a goat or someone that can digest muck, there is not likely too much to fill up with or to eat there.
The ROLLED CLOTH reference is obviously related to removed cloths while bathing, or to putting one's sex slaves with no-longer-integrated bound feet to use, hence the need to roll up the binding cloths while the feet are naked in preparation for re-binding after finishing up and completing, noting that there are no elements here meaning roll, cloth, threads, or any other clothing…but suggestions of rolling with a foot are excepted, in one or more of 48 possibilities:「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…. Women, their families, and [a husband] took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
Perhaps the Chinese pronunciation (displayed here in Japanese katakana 'fuku') is a possible source of the English word「fuck, fucked.」
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Japanese EDRDG: to fill, roll of cloth
Unihan extended: to fill; a foll of cloth
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): 22 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 27 entries
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