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Middle element likely is「say, tonguing mouth」and not「sun」formerly, nevertheless the Japanese who brought these glyphs from China may have interpreted it also as「erect, perpendicular sun over horizon」and ascribed the added meaning of NOON not used in China long ago.
「Again and again with the dawn」may signify the DAYLIGHT HOURS.
Alternatively but possibly unlikely: elements might be read as「erect shaft reaming hand again and again and again」with someone also performing「in the female role.」…recall that DURING THE DAYLIGHT HOURS the females stayed home near the caverns tending fields, gathering vegetables, and caring for the children while the males went off to hunt. After successfully snaring a sufficient number of small rodents to feed most everyone, the males had some free time on their hands, not wanting to return from「hunting」too early, since then they might be asked to help with tending fields, gathering vegetables, and caring for children. DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS, the way males killed that extra time was「scraping skin again and again」as well as「performing in the female role, and then the other guy performing in the female role, again」doing your buddy and then he did you, following the Golden Rule. Many males today still avoid getting home too early for these same reasons, so they probably did so in the good old days, too.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: daytime
Japanese EDRDG: daytime, daylight
Unihan extended: daytime, daylight
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
Chinese usage: 12 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 3 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
- Glyph.04721
- Strokes: 11
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