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「Intercourse methods」as an INVESTIGATION,「intercourse with you?」is a natural INQUIRY, and both interpretations might entail CALLING ON and VISITING, ARRIVING AT each person's home and finally COMING, perhaps making an ACCUSATION, too.
However, elements as「foreplay of scorpions」also make sense. The animals use pheromones and a series of spasmodic body vibrations to identify each other as being a male or a female INQUIRING about the other's sex (not unlike humans shaking booty or gyrating and grinding genitalia together on a dance floor…hey, you gotta find out since nowadays those cross-dressers are everywhere it seems, right? the INTERVIEW process means 'to see what's inside'). During scorpion foreplay (that is, behavior prior to copulation), the male takes the female's pedipalps in his own and they seem to dance, at times for many hours continuously (the INTERVIEW process). While remaining locked on the female as a pair, and with occasional spasmodic body vibrations (CARING for the female's need to stay stimulated), the male searches for (INVESTIGATE, SEEK) a place on the ground that is appropriate for depositing a packet of sperm (to observers, it appears that the two go VISITING, or GO CALLING from place to place), and then waltzes the female over the packet with contact, causing fertilization (the ARRIVAL). The male normally beats a hasty exit (as if ACCUSED of some crime) to avoid becoming her snack, as scorpions are sometimes cannibalistic and hungry after engaging in sex for hours on end, just as are some human beings.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to visit; to call on; to seek; to inquire; to investigate
Japanese EDRDG: call on, visit, look up, offer sympathy
Unihan extended: visit; ask, inquire
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: 40 entries
Chinese usage: 59 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 2 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 33 entries
- Glyph.04863
- Strokes: 11
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