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SHU U ・ JU
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As「cock emits」the elements depict:「The rooster has a small phallus that becomes engorged with lymph to form a copulatory organ. The copulatory organ is rudimentary and at the time of mating there is practically no penetration. The hen everts her vagina during copulation [turns it inside out and outward], which helps to transfer the semen into the oviduct.」
[ https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/natural-mating-and-breeding 2023-05-17 ]
Roosters are quite proud of the little tiny penis that remains after hatching, one that starts out with much promise but then will「peter out」to a large degree (pun intended):「Scientists have now identified the gene responsible for eliminating or reducing the bird penis, which begins to form in the embryo but disappears again before the bird hatches. The critical gene, called Bmp4, directs cells at the tip of the penis to die faster than they grow back. In birds with elaborate equipment—not just ducks, but emus and ostriches as well—Bmp4 is switched off, letting their penises grow to full size…」
[ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/how-birds-lost-their-penises-flna6c10221403 2023-05-18 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: tribal chief
Japanese EDRDG: chieftain
Unihan extended: chief of tribe, chieftain
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
Chinese usage: 7 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 25 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 10 entries
- Glyph.02434
- Strokes: 09
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