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English prefix「be-」means「by the means of…」To betray [be-tray] is an archaic manner of saying something placed upon a tray and not to be handled directly: generally messy, with fluids, in many pieces, very hot or very cold, or has been placed upon a tray for viewing or serving with portability such as a decapitated head (欠) for presentation as in the case of John the Baptist during a drunken birthday celebration.
Glyph meaning「blood」(血) notably is an emphasis marker above this glyph (皿). Beheading one's own lord and placing it upon a tray for viewing and as proof of death, killing in order to take his place and throne is also not unheard of as an old reason for betrayal. In the early days of humanity or still today, perhaps betraying one's spouse by bringing home a sexually transmissible disease causing the need for a「netting in spread legs」that「surrounded one's copulation」organs and practices,「snared by lateral movement, trapped one.」
A TRAY, BASIN, BOWL, DISH, PLATE used to hold sloppy, dripping contents. Elements are「net widened, arrayed」and spread upon a TRAY (the elements are perhaps merged deliberately to connote the gooey stickiness in the net adhering to the tray). Netting was used to hold poultices in place and wrapped around diseased genitalia, infected meat with a heated, burning-sensation and running liquids, but is depicted as removed and spread upon a TRAY to be inspected. Elements meaning「netting」are「weaving action or weave, between spread legs」that describe this netting. See various glyphs meaning「basket」as a「woven vessel」and its uses, somewhat less appetizing than a steaming tray of meats.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: dish; vessel; shallow container
Japanese EDRDG: dish, a helping, plate
Unihan extended: shallow container
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: 54 entries
Chinese usage: 5 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 185 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 6 entries
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- Strokes: 05
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