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「Spurting with soil」「emissions like a king」with a harem, or「sheep (without the tail).」A good sheep became synonymous with「praiseworthy.」The lowest vertical line extension of that short sheep's tail is missing in this element because it is in the PROPER position, up and out of the way, exposing and allowing access to the animal's genitalia, enabling a CORRECT PERFORMANCE that was worthy of praise and highly recommended in the old days of humankind.
It is possible that ovine zooerastia was considered so wonderfully and morally right because no little girls, or little boys, circle jerking, or swine were involved, and a ewe or a ram never complained at an understandable communication level. Humans tupping ewes, or rams, was the least intrusive and least harmful to other human beings (humans surmised, wrongly), yet sufficiently satisfying to make the practice「the proper performance procedure」of a morally upright man, recommendable and praiseworthy. At the time, nobody guessed that such a praiseworthy and respectable morality,「the proper procedure and position」as being the mounting and humping of sheep would spread syphilis like wildfire through the human population.
Note that the fine, tight seal provided by Tupperware® products that emulates sheep tupping by disengaging only when you wish, is just coincidentally related to sheep tupping (it seems). The inventor's family name (Earl Silas Tupper) is directly related:「This interesting surname of English origin is an occupational name for a herdsman who had charge of rams. …A 'tupman' was specifically a breeder of tups, the Northern English word for a ram or male sheep.」
[ https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Tupman 2012-02-12 ]
So, the meaning of「tupping」formerly was what male sheep (rams) do naturally with female sheep (ewes). It just seems incredible for some of us today, that's all…times do change…but to paraphrase a suggestion from one of the most well-known Jews who ever lived, let whomever is without sin cast the first stone: back in their day, they were all not guilty and were breaking no laws of any kind, mostly because there were no laws of any kind in their day.
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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.
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