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「Cock with tonguing mouth on head of prick, live and raw」will normally cause most males to AWAKEN, become LUCID, COME TO ONE'S SENSES, REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS from a deep sleep, cease their dreaming, and is a theme often seen in this and other glyphs referring to the TIME OF AWAKENING each day, the DAWN or DAWNING, RISING AND SHINING (flashing a bit).
Some have suggested「cock and stars」as the early crowing of a rooster at dawn, although roosters actually crow at any time during daylight hours, but not normally while stars are visible in the night sky since the birds are still asleep. Rooster cocks begin crowing at dawn, timed by the animal's circadian rhythm. Nevertheless, cock tonguing like a superstar is a sure-fire way to wake up a male and get him to start crowing and then out the door in order to bring home more bacon during the daily hunt.
Note to flat-earthers: is does appear that tiny stars rotate around the larger mass of the Earth, but nonetheless this appearance is deceiving to some simple-minded folk—actually, the Earth itself is rotating, and the many stars in the sky, including our own Sun, remain relatively stationary from day to day, and the Earth only seems larger than galaxies because the ground is closer to you: time to COME TO ONE'S SENSES.
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: to wake up; to be awake; to become aware; to sober up; to come to
Japanese: to awaken, to disabuse, to sober up, to wake, to wake up, to become sober, to regain consciousness, to come to one's senses, to be disillusioned
Unihan extended: wake up; sober up; startle
EDRDG: awake; be disillusioned; sober up
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
Japanese vocabulary: 19 entries
Chinese usage: 35 entries
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