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「Woody with chest obstruction, support from beneath」seems to depict a service provider astride and atop a supine client or two, or three, or a client performing mammary intercourse astride a supine service provider who was attempting to get some needed rest, i.e., TO WORK WITHOUT SLEEP.
Note that the food edamame is derived from the two glyphs 枝 and 豆, and while it has been assumed that this name for green, young tender soybeans was coined because 2,200 years ago the beans were served on plates to people while still attached to the plant stems (incredible, isn't it?), that idea is merely a recent myth based upon the revised modern published meanings of these glyphs in the effort to explain the name of this food. Actually, beans that were young, tender and green referred to「young tender clitorises working throughout the night without sleep and skill screwing woodies with crotch.」…becoming green as they were covered by gonorrheal gleet from successive clients. Of course, if the truth were thusly told, the appeal of eating the item may diminish somewhat. In short, the name is derived because the beans are green, soft, warm and wet when eaten, popped into one's mouth by gently squeezing the surrounding pod, a pod structure having two sheaths by the way, a slippery inner cavity and outer skin covered by plant pubescence (hairlike structures)…strongly resembling a「warm juicy cavity with two sets of lips and a bean inside.」
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: branch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
Japanese EDRDG: bough, branch, twig, limb, counter for branches
Unihan extended: branches, limbs; branch off
Used within names (nanori)
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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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 88 entries
Chinese usage: 71 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 31 entries
- Glyph.01928
- Strokes: 08
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