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Meanings of elements
HEAD and WRAPPED IN NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT emphasis marker within
…or: HEAD with CLEVER FEET
…or: PROSTRATE with STREAM emphasized
「Emphasis on what is inside」the「head wrapper」: a SCOOP is a device used to temporarily hold a small volume of fluids. When used with 公 in dynastic China (「loose and dripping emissions, male, public, even on both sides」) it referred to the set of no-longer-integrated feet of a publicly-used service provider for wrapping a「head and neck」inside and holding about 18ml or 3/5th oz., which is quite a small sip at most, a volume that undermines the given external assumption of a big dipper. SELECT, such as the choice of a preferred service provider. If these elements depict an ordinary spoon, it appears to be upside-down, so it would not hold anything…one must wonder why it would be drawn it in that manner. Needless to point out, the elements are also「head with no-longer-integrated foot」「prostrate with fluid stream」and a marker stroke to indicate that the skin fold contains something, such as some sort of fluid but only a small amount, perhaps rather viscous so that SCOOPING is required to extract it.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: spoon; ladle; centiliter (unit of volume)
Japanese EDRDG: ladle, one-tenth of a gō or approximately 18 mL, dip
Unihan extended: spoon, ladle; unit of volume

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 3 entries


Chinese usage: 15 entries


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