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「Grains loose and dripping」such as flax, barley, oats, rice, rye, and millet have been used since antiquity as components of a poultice, applied to infections for the purpose of drawing pus, so「grain, gonorrhea with infected bent short leg loose and dripping」makes sense as a PRIVATE matter, a matter one wishes to keep private about one's privates, a PERSONAL SECRET after BEHAVING SELFISHLY and getting a dose of the clap…and is why in English the genitals are referred to by exactly this term, MY PRIVATES, with the「head of one's woody repeatedly loose and dripping, stinky.」'the clap' may derive from the French clapoir: bubo or inflamed and tender swelling of a lymph node in the area of the groin, clapier: brothel, warren, den, burrow.
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Left element is used as a discharge leaking from the top of a hollow shaft to represent a phallus, as further emphasis of a「stinky, dripping woody」that anyone would naturally want to keep quiet as a PRIVATE matter.
The English term「dick」initially referred to a PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, a detective, someone seeking to detect a problem, later applied to mean「penis」of a person while CONDUCTING A SELF-INVESTIGATION TO DETECT A PRIVATE PROBLEM.
Scholars explain this glyph as grain plants with a nose or a bent arm while strongly held against one's chest as prevention from being forcibly taken or grabbed by others, suggesting that under penalty of death, peasants secretly and prudently hid under the noses of their gentry landlords stores of grain from each year's harvest in order to stave off starvation, which seems perfectly reasonable given their circumstances.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: personal; private; selfish
Japanese EDRDG: private, I, me
Unihan extended: private, personal; secret
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: 193 entries
Chinese usage: 128 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 5 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 2 entries
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