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Note that both the lower-left and lower-right elements were also intended make a person feel mellow, and this is a plant that might have a similar effect (「orifices in no-longer-integrated feet of concubine」and「each orifice within spread feet」respectively). Viewing an image of the male flower stem clearly reveals a stalk with multiple mushroom-shaped heads capable of penetrating at least five orifices at once, if it were an actual penis:「There is something a bit fungoid about it and, indeed…an old Dorset name for it is 'Early Mushroom' – and it's not hard to see why. It is particularly common on the river banks and some of the few (relatively) undisturbed areas that we have left. Butterbur…, is dioecious, that is male and female flowers occur on different plants. The squatter, pinker male plants tend to turn brown and shrivel once they have shed their pollen…」(not unlike human males, in that regard)
[ https://friendsofchorltonmeadows.blogspot.jp/2009/03/plant-which-is-appearing-and-coming.html 2013-01-26 with images, emphasis ours ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: leucacene
Japanese EDRDG: butterbur, bog rhubarb
Unihan extended: leucacene
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
Japanese vocabulary: 8 entries
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