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「Repeatedly dazzled by wood」to PICK, PLUCK, GATHER something such as flowers, or firewood, or woody. Old versions used「meat」to replace upper elements. Perhaps the「meat in a tree」is a reference to fruit or nuts to be GATHERED…woody meat. Gathering up DICE that had been thrown in a game of chance, such as a CRAPSHOOT, to PICK, PLUCK, GATHER the dice for another throw, or suggesting that「plucking woody」is always some sort of gamble as well, taking a risk.
Perhaps the English word 'crapshoot' is a result of plucking too many woodies in the wild:「stuff flying out repeatedly from the head of wood.」…which also describes a flaming fagot (faggot) of burning wood, for that matter.
Chinese indicates this glyph is the portion for the feudal lord who will PLUCK it from the serfs before anyone else gets a share, SELECTING the best parts for himself in his harem, and in that sense these elements were「meat for woody.」Furthermore, if humans have learned nothing else during the age of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, it's that every time one PLUCKS another's woody meat, it is a CRAPSHOOT, always some sort of gamble, something that the ancient sages knew all too well thousands of years ago from experiences with gonorrhea and shared ewes.
BRIGHT COLORATION, APPEARANCE refers to the variegated discharges causes by a gonorrhea infection: reds, browns, greens, yellows and whitish of course, a COLORFUL BIRD.
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: to pick; to pluck; to collect; to select; to choose; to gather; allotment to a feudal noble; color; complexion; looks; variant of 採|采
Japanese: dice, die, baton
Unihan extended: collect, gather; pick, pluck
EDRDG: dice; form; appearance; take; coloring
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: 24 entries
Chinese usage: 76 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 16 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 39 entries
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- Strokes: 08
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