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Or: elements as「down in a proceptive lordosis position offering one's spread buttocks with erection prick and feel of fluids pumping in a squeezing grip」kowtowing (bowing over as does「bamboo」) as an offer to any passerby with some loose change, selling short-term access to one's redeye in order TO RAISE FUNDS whilst ASSUMING GREAT RISK as a MEANS TO AN END, a RESOURCE used to enhance one's begging in order to stave off starvation for another day in dynastic China.
Furthermore, per some dubious sources, GAMBLING CHIPS were also used to wipe residual feces with a squeezing grip from one's bunghole after defecating or prior to the next passerby with loose change, with the smoothly finished surface of the oldest and worn chips providing the most satisfactory results without nicks and scratches…which also explains why GAMBLING CHIPS were so named.「Bamboo with a lifelong activity」which is to say that no one likes to play with sticky chips. Perhaps the origin of the expression「dirty money」(why throw the chips away?). Rumored as the source for the invention of flavor-enhanced, salty「finger foods」while playing board and card games. Insufficient hard data exists to establish any link with a「chips and dip」theme, but one can imagine the various sorts of material clinging to a soiled chip token after use. Perhaps the source of the English expression,「that's the ticket!.」
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: chip (in gambling); token (for counting); ticket; to prepare; to plan; to raise (funds); resource; means
Japanese EDRDG: chip, tally, token, raise money
Unihan extended: chip, tally, token; raise money
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: 34 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 14 entries
- Glyph.07067
- Strokes: 13
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