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刂
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Meanings of elements
VERTICAL MOTION with STREAM
…or: STREAMING ROD in RECIPROCATING MOTIONS
…or: SHAFT with UNPLEASANT BARBS
Element for SWORD, KNIFE meaning CUT, SHEAR, MOW, TRIM, REAM. Note that in a few modern forms of some glyphs, this element has been substituted for that meaning LINES OF MOTION, perhaps because cutting with a sword entails making lines of motion. Elements appear to be「vertical motion, stream」perhaps of a blow straight down, hacking something that causes a stream of fluid to flow, such as blood from a decapitated torso. A knife with a hook shaped into the backside of the blade is called a caping knife in English. Caping is the process of removing the skin from the head and neck of an animal, normally for use mounting a trophy.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: knife; see 立刀旁; see 側刀旁|侧刀旁
Japanese EDRDG: knife
Unihan extended: knife

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? (More...) 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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