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Meanings of elements
TERRACED SOIL SLOPE with WRAPPED AND PACKED INTO A CAVITY
…or: HUMAN BACKSIDE and WRAP IN TENSION with HORSE PESTLE IN CAVITY
…or: REAR VIEW OF NAKED BUTTOCKS and FORMED IN CLAY WRAPPED AND PACKED INTO A CAVITY
Old-style KILNS are still sometimes built up a long slope to assist in creating a constant draft (heat rises up the slope, inside the furnace) to generate the high heat needed to fire clay.「Wrap」is the outer layer of the kiln and a「crockery pot」is being fired within. DISCIPLINE and TRAINING are needed to keep the fires「burning hot continuously 24 hours a day」(which also connotes constant training), since if the fires weaken, the clay PORCELAIN objects inside will be ruined. The same folks who operated the kilns often were the artisans, representing education and skill, creating objects of ART and CULTURE.
Alternatively,「naked human backside with head tense for a long time wrapped in skin slit with horse cock head downward thrusting into cavity.」…these elements quite clearly represent a PORCELAIN DILDO, used by harem concubines and aristocratic Chinese females with CULTURE, years of DISCIPLINED TRAINING in sexual and other cultural arts, and HIGH-CLASS BREEDING, to PLEASURE themselves and their partners:「Historians do not know who invented the dildo but most believe that dildos most likely originated in Asia. Dildos have been found in China that date back as early as the New Stone Age, that's more than 12,000 years ago and most recently a tomb was uncovered from the Han Dynasty in Xian, China that was home to a rather interesting collection of dildos. Seven cast bronze dildos were discovered and evidence indicates that they were used by palace maids on sexually deprived imperial concubines or aristocratic women during the Han Dynasty. Also discovered in ancient China, are handcrafted dildos which double as works of art…」
[ link to text and images is now dead, unsurprisingly, but was https://chinahub.blogspot.jp/2009/02/ancient-chinese-dildo.html 2012-09-11 try your own Internet search instead ]…no shame there, it seems. Note that PORCELAIN literally means「vulva of a sow, female pig.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: pottery; pleased
Japanese EDRDG: pottery, porcelain
Unihan extended: pottery, ceramics

Used within names (nanori)
す ・ すえ

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 33 entries


Chinese usage: 59 entries


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