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Some sources list the meaning of BEING CONVEYED TO HEAVEN that may or may not be due to the arrival of a gaggle of NEW DIVAS: lord's or emperor's CONSENT to accept the candidates formally by「assemble in front of person」or「insertion with rod, extent, one, horizontal motions, an array of items」(varies by font) with「reaming meat」: no mention of who is actually conveyed to a heavenly realm, but most likely the concubines, and not the lord who was already there. Perhaps the「amputate feet」listing has to do with mashing the arch bones, rendering the feet unfit for walking. Note that in English, a gaggle is an indefinite number of animals with webbed feet when not in flight, and a bevy refers specifically to a group of deer 鹿, quail 鶉, larks 鷚, or young ladies 妾, all defined as essentially the same by these glyphs as「easy meat」especially when unable to flee due to crushed metatarsi in both feet.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: yes (used by Emperor or ruler); OK; to accede; to assent
Unihan extended: surname; consent, approve
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: 3 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 27 entries
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- Glyph.02439
- Strokes: 09
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