「Pig with an erection」「an erection with a pig」or「swelled, swollen pig」as quite BOLD and FEARLESS (or, stupid), being UNINHIBITED: not actually pork or swine, but a rodent covered with 30,000 erectile bristles that can「swell, appear engorged」is a PORCUPINE, quite large, slow, short legged (they seldom, if ever, run), fearless rodents (and not pigs actually), in English also, as「porc with thorns」like the needles of a pine tree. Porcupines must ingest a large amount of salt to maintain their metabolism, hence to obtain salt, the animals are in fact quite BOLD and FEARLESS (or, stupid), and will eat nearly anything that smells salty (feces are often quite salty) being UNINHIBITED by nature. As a porcupine moves, its long, hollow quills rattle together, making a rather loud noise announcing their presence, again unafraid of the consequences: a lion will need to have become quite hungry before thinking it may find any supper within a porcupine hide, since it must get past all those sharp quills, first. Lions don't always lose the battle, but porcupines do not often need to flee a challenge, and often simply roll up, erect their 30,000 odd quills with barbed tips, and wait. Porcupine NEVER FLEE FROM AN ATTACKER.
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.
