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Surviving modern definitions…excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
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: ice radical in Chinese characters, occurring in 冰, 决, 次; see also 兩點水|两点水
Unihan extended: ice
EDRDG: two-stroke water radical or ice radical (no. 15)
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: see 兩點水|两点水
Unihan extended: ice
[ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191127161446.htm 2019-12-05 ]
Within glyphs, TWO is associated with TWO PHYSICALLY CHANGING STATES, such as expanded and contracted, longer and shorter. Nonetheless, a particularly good example is evident with water and ice, since all those states might apply, as water expands and hardens into ice, and ice shrinks and softens when changing into water. Note that water typically changes from a liquid state to a solid state as ice without congealing or necessarily first becoming slushy, hence this element likely referred to something else originally.
Emphasis marker, or a「drop」(丶) with「head sliding up and in」(㇀) that indeed exhibits two states, one thick and congealing, another thin and runny:
「After ejaculation, the latter part of the ejaculated semen coagulates immediately, forming globules, while the earlier part of the ejaculate typically does not. After a period typically ranging from 15–30 minutes, prostate-specific antigen present in the semen causes the decoagulation of the seminal coagulum. It is postulated that the initial clotting helps keep the semen in the vagina, while liquefaction frees the sperm to make their journey to the ova.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen 2023-05-08 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: see 兩點水|两点水
Unihan extended: ice
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.
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 186 entries
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- Glyph.00023
- Strokes: 02
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