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「Flow that returns, resumes」or「fluid flow from canine genitals」(i.e., a 'dick-dog') is that of gonorrheal gleet. A dose of clap was surely one good reason to WEEP, CRY, SHED TEARS in the old days prior to effective antibiotics (and, that window of salvation may be closing again…).
In addition to gonorrhea, a「flow that returns」might be a reference to TEARS that return again and again during the saga of each human's life drama, the way life is. Or, TEARS are a「flow of fluid that causes return.」…perhaps…of someone who has started to depart, walk away, stomp off during an argument.
Some have suggested tearing up and crying when one's lost「dog returns to one's door.」
「Fluid with vomiting.」Certainly, nearly all folks shed TEARS as they retch vomiting, and vomit itself is not exactly liquid in many cases (「filter chunks from fluid」), so this glyph is likely referring to TEARS.
「Flowing」with「buttocks crack」with「big, as wide as two hands」and emphasized might just as well be depicting someone with both hands placed on and spreading the buttocks cheeks as he or she finally relieves a bad case of constipation, getting the flow going again by returning to a previous condition of better health that might bring both TEARS of pain and then TEARS of joy. Use any mnemonic you like perhaps other than「flowing fluids with buttocks crack of your dog」(although no doubt that, too, has been attempted, with someone ending up in tears and badly bitten after attempting to serve into that rectum).
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: tears
Japanese EDRDG: tears, weep, cry
Unihan extended: tears; weep, cry
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.
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Chinese usage: 36 entries
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