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Captive females, those remaining alive, might have presented meat that seems to have died, lifeless during the rape, and, some were「compliant」perhaps, but remember that the same thing could be said about a corpse. Soldiers often violate(d) the slain corpses of enemies in a necrophiliac manner as well (showing them 'who was boss'). SURPLUS female captives were often sold as slaves for PROFIT (but were there ever any surplus female slaves in dynastic China though? only if the food supply ran low). Elements also suggest the defilement of a corpse of a「very old impotent person」that likely refers to the dead and vanquished lord, whose corpse was also repeatedly defiled beside his dead concubines. See 失, 鐡, and 鐵 for details.
「Singular accounts of necrophilia in history are sporadic, though written records suggest the practice was present within Ancient Egypt. Herodotus writes in The Histories that, to discourage intercourse with a corpse, ancient Egyptians left deceased beautiful women to decay for 'three or four days' before giving them to the embalmers. Herodotus also alluded to suggestions that Greek tyrant Periander had defiled the corpse of his wife, employing a metaphor: 'Periander baked his bread in a cold oven.' Acts of necrophilia are depicted on ceramics from the Moche culture, which reigned in northern Peru from the first to eighth century CE. A common theme in these artifacts is the masturbation of a male skeleton by a living woman. Hittite law from the 16th century BC through to the 13th century BC explicitly permitted sex with the dead.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia 2015-11-22 ]
Note that cannibalism, torture until death, and necrophilia were portrayed in the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by the Brothers Grimm in their children's tale.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: old variant of 贏|赢 , to win, to profit; old variant of 盈 , full
Japanese EDRDG: to win, to have surplus, surname
Unihan extended: to win; to have a surplus
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.
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Chinese usage: 2 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 3 entries
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