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「Skewering meat of sick penis」describes treatment of a gonorrhea infection by reaming the urethra with a bougie. While the top element is used in Japan to represent tasty meat kabobs covered with sauce and food items on a skewer, in old Chinese this referred to a「series of vulva penetrations」that were often clandestine, conspiratorial, or potentially harmful. Nevertheless likening a series of vulva penetrations to tasty meat kabobs dipped in brown sauces and food items on a skewer is not farfetched for some, such as anyone who regularly uses the expression 'meat rack.' Clearly today also, a「series of vulva penetrations with an appendage spewing venom drops」is a depiction of the risks associated with SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, and in those good old days before the advent of penicillin and other antibiotics, anyone so stricken was in for a LONG-TERM AFFLICTION OR DISEASE, a CHRONIC ILLNESS of perhaps the worst possible sort as the pain became unbearable and you watched your body parts rot and fall off, one by one, as the demon corkscrews and other pathogens devoured your still-living brains and other tissue (a「skewered mind and spirit」), causing continual pus-filled discharges from any nearby orifice or pore until your internal organs shut down (might be better to ask your buddy to smash your skull with a big rock, instead).
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry
Japanese EDRDG: afflicted, disease, suffer from, be ill
Unihan extended: suffer, worry about; suffering
Used within names (nanori)
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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: 70 entries
Chinese usage: 60 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 3 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 95 entries
- Glyph.04529
- Strokes: 11
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