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隆
隆

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Meanings of elements
SLOPE OF BUTTOCKS with SPREAD FEET over PRICK HEAD
…or: SOIL SLOPE with HEAVENLY
…or: MUCK SLOPE with HEAD IN CROTCH and VIRILITY
Nobles and wealthy folks lived their lives on the top of hills and slopes.「Array of human backsides and spread feet, head in crotches with raw prick heads」refers to BULGING, PROTUBERANCES and PEAK, PEAKING, LIFE AT THE TOP with all the PROSPERITY and FLOURISHING of the life enjoyed by royalty (be sure to see 窿). We have no idea why this also means the sound of beating drums, unless this was some sort of ritual or carnival organized by shamans with rhythmic pounding against buttocks meat that has now faded from memory, unfortunately or fortunately as the case may be. Perhaps the arrayed sets of buttocks cheeks all lined up were accessed rhythmically by protuberances in unison to the cadence of drumbeats in two lines of jiggling booty dancing as the life sometimes enjoyed by royalty, or more likely, a sales and marketing event of wealthy invitees all simultaneously accessing the backsides of line members caused the drumbeating sound (probably, both drums and client motion cadence were employed…may also have been some sort of sport, or an endurance contest with judging, scoring, and referees). English word 'carnival' literally means「meat is raised, lifted.」…various type of meat, rods raised or buttocks in lordosis position.
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External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: grand; intense; prosperous; to swell; to bulge; sound of drums; short for 吉隆坡 , Kuala Lumpur
Japanese EDRDG: hump, high, noble, prosperity
Unihan extended: prosperous, plentiful, abundant

Used within names (nanori)
お ・ たか ・ たかし

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.


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