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As a BADGER that is TENACIOUS: while not literally「legless」badger species are known for their very short legs and nasty, sharp claws and teeth. In many parts of the world including America, Europe, China, Korea, and Japan, badger meat was (and still is) considered a great delicacy, hence the topmost element is most likely a morphed variant of「meat.」
In Germany, short-legged dachshunds were bred for hunting short-legged badgers to be used as supper meat. BADGERS have a jawbone shape and structure that「…enables the badgers to maintain their hold with the utmost tenacity, but limits jaw movement to hinging open and shut, or sliding from side to side without the twisting movement possible for the jaws of most mammals.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger 2013-09-10 ] this powerful jaw enables the badger to hold onto supper meat that is「wrapped and gushing chunks.」
Refers also to LARVAE, WORMS, legless animals with no bones, only「meat that gushes chunks」when squished.
A person who is SHORT-LEGGED, FOOTLESS (or apparently so) with elements possibly of「meat of no-longer-integrated feet」with「wrapped and gushing chunks」as a CONCUBINE, or SERVICE PROVIDER with TENACITY, having no-longer-integrated feet「meat that gushes」when squished. Perhaps this is the meaning ascribed to a「legendary beast, animal」since the modern world is bent on erasing and denying the past practice of foot-dis-integrating and binding of a billion or so Chinese girls…see all the glyphs this one is Used-In. no-longer-integrated feet「…enables the [feet] to maintain their hold with the utmost tenacity, but limits [foot] movement to hinging open and shut, or sliding from side to side without the twisting movement possible for the [feet] of most mammals.」
[ ibidem. With paraphrasing ]
「…badgers were once a primary meat source for the diets of Native Americans and white colonists. Badgers were also eaten in Britain during World War II and the 1950s. In Russia, the consumption of badger meat is still widespread. Shish kebabs made from badger, along with dog meat and pork, are a major source of trichinosis outbreaks in the Altai region of Russia. In Croatia, badger meat is rarely eaten. When it is, it is usually smoked and dried or, less commonly, served in goulash. In France, badger meat was used in the preparation of several dishes, such as Blaireau au sang, and it was a relatively common ingredient in countryside cuisine. Badger meat was eaten in some parts of Spain until recently. In Japan, badger is regarded in folktales as a food for the humble.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger 2013-06-10 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: worm-like invertebrate; mythical animal (see 獬豸 ); radical in Chinese characters
Japanese EDRDG: snake, legless insect
Unihan extended: legless insects; a legendary beast
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: 4 entries
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