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Heads of BARLEY, OATS, RYE, and WHEAT appear quite bristly, with long-awned, bristly spikes (rachis) surrounding the grains, compared to heads of rice grain with much shorter rachis. Barley needs cold temperatures in winter to vernalize in order to produce normal grains in late spring. Moreover, modern research has confirmed ancient texts that state regularly eating BARLEY, OATS is an excellent way to remain regular, that is, your colon will「squeeze」out fecal material while your feet are inverted as you hang onto a pole for support, squatting while defecating (perhaps old style outhouses in China. Certainly a position used when giving birth and other primates when defecating). Glyph itself resembles the rachis on a head of barley,「squeezing with spread feet.」
Nonetheless,「wedged, squeezed, clamped, held on both sides, insert between, sandwiched with vertical reciprocating rod motion with head sliding among feet」as well as「two people screwing on each side with rod erection taut and head among spread feet」also describe depictions in erotic Chinese art of males masturbating with sets of no-longer-integrated feet:「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …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 [no-longer-integrated] bound feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: wheat; barley; oats
Japanese EDRDG: wheat
Unihan extended: wheat, barley, oats
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: 78 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 11 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 14 entries
- Glyph.04417
- Strokes: 11
- old_forms
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