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A KNOCKER is something KNOCKING against something else.「To turn and face toward, be inclined to」another human being normally indicates chest-high level viewing, and may indicate cleavage of large mammary glands, i.e., KNOCKERS as is also the case in English slang, a heartfelt term to be sure. Glyph is another example that integrates concepts of heart, buttocks, and breasts (see 心). Upper and lower elements both indicate sites on a human body that may entail knocking or repeated pounding against, of some sort, from time to time.「Repeatedly inclined towards buttocks crack, the doorway」also suggests the repeated KNOCKING of two round objects contained in a scrotal sac against that doorway and/or its surrounding structures, as does「buttocks doorway with emphasis on vagina, orifice in spread legs」while recalling that in dynastic China the commonly accepted position for this sort of activity was with the person below to be kneeling and bent over forward, on all fours in the lordosis position as it were.
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)
Unihan extended: large ring on a front door used as a knocker
EDRDG: large ring on a front door used as a knocker
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
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