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「Emphasis on array of dead bodies, meal ingredients」depicts the QUINTESSENTIAL TRUTH that we all are mortal and will die, noting that unless one eats one's meals of living animals, then the meal meat is effectively that of a dead body, naturally.「Full coffin」or「full food ingredients」(what or where we eat) describes TRUTH and REALITY. In the end something will eventually eat us, too, even if only lowly bacteria. Joe Black knows the only sure things in life, the surest TRUTHS and absolute REALITIES, are Death and Taxes (actually, before the creation of kings, there weren't any taxes, either…that leaves only Death as what is inevitably TRUE).「Rotation as supper ingredients」meaning death in Buddhism, but continuing to live on as some other life form (we are what we have eaten, we therefore will continue as whatever has eaten us). TRUTH is that every living thing, every living body, will all someday die and be eaten by something or someone else, by a large carnivore on down to scavengers on down to maggots and beetle larvae further on down to microbes and bacteria. In addition, during the good ol' days of rampant human cannibalism, most everyone became useful again upon death by supplying sustenance to the living, but those were days prior to Buddhism.
「We know that human sacrifice and cannibalism were widely practiced in pre-literate societies and that they were not local but universal cultural phenomena. …[T]he ancient Chinese also participated in this culture, which has much in common with the [Journal of Generative Anthropology] position about the violent origin and early development of human civilization…」
[ https://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1401/1401plutschow/ 2011-03-08 ]
As「rod horizontal in self with array of emissions」the combinations depict PURITY, and QUINTESSENTIAL TRUTH for avoiding medical and other problems:「array the self with array of emissions.」A STAR PERFORMER is suggestive of「rotation, screwing」with「fleshpot, tool」as the QUINTESSENTIAL TRUTH of humans and a service provider who truly does fully enjoy her work with no need for acting (much). Note that adding「feces」to this glyph (填) means 'to fuck' in Chinese, but that may be more related to how「quintessential soil」was perceived by that culture during a former age.
「Array or one, with self and no-longer-integrated foot pedestal (literally meaning 'female foot stall')」are feet with a compartment used by a domesticated animal such as cattle…which in dynastic China during the age of dis-integrating feet was described by the elements「erection with array of reciprocating vertical motions」and so on.「Screwing goal is array of emissions」also seems to capture the QUINTESSENTIAL TRUTH of human behavior as well at that of many other species (without it, a species soon becomes extinct).
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine
Japanese EDRDG: true, reality, Buddhist sect
Unihan extended: real, actual, true, genuine
Used within names (nanori)
さな ・ さね ・ ただ ・ ただし ・ なお ・ のり ・ まあ ・ まこ ・ まさ ・ まっ ・ まど ・ まな ・ まゆ ・ みち ・ も
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: 519 entries
Chinese usage: 212 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 24 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 23 entries
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- Strokes: 10
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