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Note that some glyphs (such as 邥 and 兓) substitute 「raised leg, biting」(レ) in place of「bent penis」(乚) as it related to a service provider in China with no-longer-integrated feet, and「array of erections with a raised leg and feet no-longer-integrated」is perhaps the epitome of BEING LAME, ACTIONS WITH THE LAME, a LAME ACTION as it relates both literally and figuratively. Nor does a penis bent by a prior biting experience or an infection function too well, depicting a WEAKENED condition.
Perhaps a condition after being stung by a scorpion if the elements are interpreted as「hand」with「scorpion tail, appendage spewing venom.」
The man who boasted about himself as being The Greatest claimed to have abstained from sex prior to a fight, since「hand with penis」also WEAKENS a man temporarily for a spell, it would seem. Early human experience rich in both war and sex would have soon manifested this WEAKENED condition, as it also appears with other male animals banging heads and fighting to copulate with the female herd-in-waiting. Undoubtedly, ejaculation causes a male's testosterone level to physically decrease by volume and therefore perhaps WEAKENS a male, with testosterone as prime steroid material. Increased testosterone levels result in increased power and competitive aggression, which is one reason why athletes use steroids. Whether believed or not, the current Internet activity related to erotic sites and a man's「hand on his penis」in fact does WEAKEN his own「meat」at times contributing to erectile dysfunction, and a temporarily diminished desire for hunting meat while bar-hopping or by other means during refractory.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: lame
Unihan extended: weak
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): 88 entries
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