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Depicting someone who「maintains distance on each side of orifices lined up in a prone array, and looking」ATTEMPTING, TRYING to see any symptoms of disease, ATTEMPTING, TRYING to find a buddy or some other sexual partner for a short-term rental without blatant symptoms of infection. Note that the top element likely referred to「looking closely for, inspection of disease on genitals and anus.」In Chinese means to READ THE SIGNS of illness, READING EACH LINE and carefully LOOK AT INDIVIDUAL LINES. Note that these glyphs were designed at a time when folks did not yet read anything that had been written, but instead refer to looking at illustrated drawings or the actual experiences in the daily lives of most folks generally, in this case an inspection for disease of bodily areas not normally visible, unless the subject was mooning, of course. The Chinese version includes「netting for genitalia poultices」in the items to be perused, also a prudent measure.
How can anyone be blamed for doing that?
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: Japanese variant of 覽|览
Unihan extended: look at, inspect; perceive
EDRDG: perusal; see
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: 88 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 5 entries
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