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ROD with PREPARED FOR CLASHING, TAUT ELEVATED TESTICLES and STREAMING
「Rod vertical」「raised testicles (gem stones) in elevated scrotum, preparing for clashes, two mounted together in one setting」with「streaming flow downwards」resembles a gateway, traditionally the easiest place for an invader to attack, and where the CLASH, BATTLE, FIGHT normally started during the sack of a walled city (glyph elements actually depict「the sack」). Because of this, very often large rocks were mounted above a city gateway to be pushed off and fall upon invaders attempting to crash the gate, mashing heads in the process (see 弩). Boiling liquids such as slurry or oil also were streamed straight down upon antagonists at the gate. Rods as spears and arrows were also deployed, naturally.
Smaller gateways were staffed with the king's guards and administrators inside conducting meat inspections for infectious disease in order to restrict the spread of pathogens within the gated area of the quarter, zone, or district (匡). Note that any gateway is only effective if accompanied by an unbroken surrounding wall, and likely also patrolled by a brute squad to discourage wall-jumping. ARGUMENTS and DISPUTES often broke out with potential clients desiring entry but who also exhibited symptoms.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to fight; to struggle; to condemn; to censure; to contend; to put together; coming together
Unihan extended: struggle, fight, compete, contend

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.


Chinese usage: 72 entries


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