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Alternatively,「plunging baculum」represents attracting attention to markings on「cloth」delineating where to cut the cloth in a CUTTING PATTERN for making TAILORED clothing by piercing the cloth with small pin-like spears that resembled dog baculums, or more likely long ago, actual dog bone baculums were inserted into animal skins, and later into cloth…「Clothing that attracts attention」perhaps refers to a JUDGE'S ROBES (in the past, only some sort of noble person) that「attracted attention」and used large bone stays such as in the shoulders, making them always stiff and erect as is a penis with baculum, representing the VERDICT, SENTENCING, JUDGEMENT of a court. Corsets in the West were formerly filled with bone stays, and corsets were used generally by women but also some men to「attract the attention of noble dogs with erections.」
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to cut out (as a dress); to cut; to trim; to reduce; to diminish; to cut back (e.g. on staff); decision; judgment
Japanese EDRDG: tailor, judge, decision, cut out (pattern)
Unihan extended: cut out; decrease
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: 161 entries
Chinese usage: 72 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 61 entries
- Glyph.06046
- Strokes: 12
- jlpt-N2 grade_06
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