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PHOSPHORUS…a chemical element that is self-igniting in plain air that bursts into sputtering flames and bright flashing with small droplets of molten metal spurting upward, first derived in modern times by boiling down rotted human urine into a paste of white, waxy substance that glowed in the dark (so, why would anyone think of doing that?), AN IDEA THAT SEEMED GOOD AT THE TIME BUT WITH BAD RESULTS.
BURNING VERY HOT:「Phosphorus has a high tendency to stick to skin and when in contact, its highly lipid-soluble property can allow deepening of the burn injury into the subcutaneous tissue. …Systemic absorption from skin contact or inhalation causes erythrocyte hemolysis and multiple organ dysfunction. Phosphorus burns are typically severely painful, necrotic, and yellowish in color with a characteristic smell of garlic. They are commonly full-thickness burns, resulting from chemical and thermal insults.」 [ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4364261 2020-12-28 ]
「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's [no-longer-integrated] bound feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Japanese EDRDG: phosphorus
Unihan extended: phosphorus
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
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 22 entries
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䑞Similar glyphs with related meanings: 105 entries
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- Strokes: 12 ~ 13
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