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「Identifying marker, warning sign」of「woody stake with declining head」as a MARKER, a SIGN, likely a bad omen of things to come.
「Noisy with wagging baculum」that contains the ancient「dog」element as referring to the feeling of desire for copulation due to hormone levels and pheromones sensed: humans have been selectively breeding canids for thousands of years:「standing erection swelled」with「tongue wagging panting in mouth」and with「dog penis wagging」as a SIGN that would clearly IDENTIFY which dog was the stud, and tying the animal to a stake would have allowed the procedure to be controlled a bit more than permitting the dog to mount the bitch of his choice. A dog with his spear erect and ready for penetration gave rise to the meaning of SWORD, SPEARING…and POTTER'S CLAY is the euphemism for god-like authority to determine progeny and molding the future of a species (not to mention slurry).
「Defiant slave howling」「noise, sound of screaming while swollen tongue is twisted, screwed out of mouth」with「dirk, spear, blade, sword」refers to IDENTIFYING BY BRANDING an unruly biting sex slave.「Defiant biting, sound of staked dog」as would occur when a guard dog barks as a SIGN that someone unknown or some animal is approaching. Used as a MARKER of some sort, such as a「noisy barking dog staked」to the ground to identify a place for some special reason. Is there any connection between English 'bark' as skin on wood and 'bark' as the sound of a dog, both being a warning sign of possible trouble? or one's woody-dog being debarked by a defiant biting fellatrix?
Note that there is some confusion about the stroke count, since most uses as an element combine the two horizontal strokes into one, forming a single element. Chinese and Japanese sources indicate 13 at the total count, but then most often depict only 12 strokes.
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: a sword, potter's clay, to gather
Unihan extended: a sword; potter's clay; to gather
EDRDG: sword; potter's clay; to gather
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 10 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
- Glyph.06823
- Strokes: 13 ~ 12
- elements
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