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'Collar' is probably a misnomer since the contraptions are at least a meter or more in diameter with a small hole in the center for the prisoner's neck, but too small to allow the head to pass through and escape. 'Collared' (slang for 'a criminal arrested') would apply, however. Cangues were large enough to prevent the prisoner from feeding herself or himself, or scratching his or her own nose, and so on. If no one assisted by「joining in doing something」with the prisoner, he or she would soon starve. Simply lying down was also impossible without suffocating, and sitting required constant use of muscles to hold the cangue or be asphyxiated, so sleep was nigh impossible. Needless to say, most folks so imprisoned did not remain alive for a long duration in the cangue, although it may have seemed so to those within. Miscreants with a life sentence in the cangue did not remain alive too long.
「Woody with power and the orifice」describes another aspect apparently useful to the ancient Chinese magistrates and the public at large, which was to enable passersby with free access to the various crotch orifices of the imprisoned human being, for various activities, without the need to deal with much of a struggle. Nothing better than adding to the torture of the detained, as it were.
Some suggest「woody with added orifice power」as a SCAFFOLD used for autoerotic asphyxiation masturbation techniques…could be, as that activity also binds the neck.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
Japanese EDRDG: shackles, irons, handcuffs, bonds
Unihan extended: cangue scaffold
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.
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Japanese vocabulary: 13 entries
Chinese usage: 14 entries
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