Formerly referred to a silk cocoon that was「divided」that is, divided into many small segments of roughly equal length, such as one hour is divided into 60 minutes. The natural process when not harvested for silk is for a cocoon to be cut from the inside by the escaping moth into thousands of short, useless segments as a metamorphosed caterpillar begins to cut its way out, emerging as a moth. Each cocoon is formed from a single fiber of silk that averages 800 to 1,200 meters in length (3/5 mile) and formed from about 300,000 figure-eight twists. However, if the caterpillar was not crushed or scalded to death soon enough, or was left hanging on a branch, it began to use its mouth to cut its own way out of the cocoon. One end of the bundled thread would be chewed through, causing that cocoon's single long thread to be separated into thousands of smaller, useless pieces「small segments of roughly equal length」with many ends, in total CONFUSION as the cocoon softened and unraveled, separating into a confused mass of 300,000 or so short fibers when placed into hot water with other cocoons for softening and unraveling. The output of many, many fiber ends might be CONFUSED, INDISTINGUISHABLE, DIVERTED, CONCEALED, MISLEADING, MISTAKEN, EVASIVE.
　「Distinguish good and evil with penile emissions.」…That output might be NUMEROUS CONFUSED, INDISTINGUISHABLE, DIVERTED, CONCEALED, MISLEADING, MISTAKEN, EVASIVE and so on, the natural result of a single service provider with many clients from early morning until late evening.「Penile emissions with reaming, distinguish good and evil」in a gonorrhea patient while working with a bougie. Best to mop the work space between patients, or else the results become commingled with prior emissions, leading to MISLEADING CONFUSION and MISTAKEN diagnoses.

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: numerous; confused; disorderly
Japanese: imitation, sham, -like, to be mistaken for, to be confused with, confusion, fluke, chance, scattering, to imitate, to confuse, to divert, to distract, to conceal, to be diverted, to slip into
Unihan extended: in disorder, scattered, tangled
EDRDG: distract; be mistaken for; go astray; divert