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「Tonguing mouth」as a voracious meat-sucking insect such as a mass of maggots, not unlike a「professional fellatrix in comparison shopping contest」hoping to be selected for purchase by a wealthy master as the elements suggest:「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
And as for the two「sitting person」with「tonguing mouth」elements:「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…. Women, their families, and their husbands took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
Beetles form the largest group of living things, accounting for about 25% of all known animal life forms on the planet as counted by the number of species. The ants probably hold the top position for sheer combined animal body mass and in number of individuals (excluding prokaryotes and single-celled eukaryotes). Fly maggots and beetles normally colonize corpses and carcasses from the top and the ants from beneath, ingesting the putrid flesh in ever-thickening TANGLED MASS of bodies and SWARMS in layers by sucking up the juices formed as bacteria and larval secretions decompose the flesh. Likening the mass of tangled larvae and insects writhing together in an orgiastic curtain of teeming meat may have inspired the meaning of DESCENDANTS in China, similar to a venerable old man meeting with all his great-grandchildren rugrats.
It is no coincidence that the English root word「broth」meaning fluids in which meat has been heated, cooked and fired, is used to describe「someone who broths」as a brother and a「house for brothing」as a brothel.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 崑; descendant; elder brother; a style of Chinese poetry
Japanese EDRDG: descendants, elder brother, insect
Unihan extended: elder brother; descendants
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: 33 entries
Chinese usage: 33 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 24 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 72 entries
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