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「The simple or complex colouration patterns (which help in camouflage and anti-predator display) are a property of the underlying skin, but the folded nature of scaled skin allows bright skin to be concealed between scales then revealed in order to startle predators. …The scales of a snake primarily serve to reduce friction as it moves, since friction is the major source of energy loss…. The ventral (or belly) scales, which are large and oblong, are especially low-friction…. Snake skin and scales help retain moisture in the animal's body. …Each scale has an outer surface and an inner surface. The skin from the inner surface hinges back and forms a free area which overlaps the base…more advanced snakes have special large symmetrical scales…. Some snakes…may have spinelike and juxtaposed scales while others may have large and non-overlapping knobs….」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_scales 2013-09-27 ] and so on.
Or an「order to blow」「loose and dripping stink」to act as might a snake with its darting tongue protruding from the rostral groove of its mouth. Actually, the tongue is 'smelling' and sensing its environment searching for prey and meat with its vomeronasal system and Jacobson's organ, not unlike a slithering wary service provider exercising due diligence and caution. Snakes are neither slimy nor encased by the same type of scales as are fish. Instead, snake skin consists of dry SCUTES. Nevertheless, the allusion to an「order to start blowing, loose dripping short leg, mouth an inch away on person in squeezing grip, making a payment」and so on all do suggest a SLIME TRAIL of some sort, eventually. Review all the fundamental elements and apply imagination.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: scales on the belly of a snake, aiding locomotion; snail; to crawl
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
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 6 entries
- Glyph.05439
- Strokes: 11
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