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「Rod sniping, a sniper」is an attack upon someone unsuspecting of any danger, a SITTING DUCK, a SUCKER.
Elements literally are perhaps related to the English expression,「flipping the bird」as being the time to turn over a male prostitute and continue one's intentions of「pushing down at a steep angle plugging orifice with rod」with that insulting gesture intimating one's antagonist is just such a person who might enjoy being buggered. …so, did the crassness of many English expressions originate with Chinese glyphs and their literal meanings being carried back to England after the expelled drug lords pushing opium returned home? continue reading other glyphs to discover many more highly unlikely coincidences. Ducklings have webbed feet as did Chinese service providers and concubines.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: duck; male prostitute (slang)
Japanese EDRDG: wild duck, easy mark
Unihan extended: duck; Anas species (various)
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: 47 entries
Chinese usage: 30 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 28 entries
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- Strokes: 16
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