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[ https://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1401/1401plutschow/ 2011-03-08 ]
「Human cannibals likely took a big bite out of their fellow humans about 10,000 years ago, according to a study that examined prehistoric bones with scratch and bite marks on them. …In the end, they discovered 30 bones belonging to three individuals: a robust adult, a gracile adult and an infant. However, the infant had only one complete bone (a shoulder blade, or scapula) that did not show signs of cannibalism, the researchers said. …But the practice goes way back: there's even evidence of Neanderthal cannibalism in Belgium and Spain from more than 40,000 years ago, when they went extinct, Live Science previously reported.」
[ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prehistoric-human-bones-show-signs-of-cannibalism/ 2017-03-28 ]
「Insides」of a「person」to a cannibal mean MEAT, and whether today we like it or not, all human societies in the past and other primates today remain cannibals.
Most carnivores, such as vultures, lions, hyenas, and so on, when beginning to open a carcass to eat the available MEAT will start at the easiest and most tender point of entry, the groin located「between spread legs」by first tearing the anus, vagina, or scrotum wider, as the case may be.
Topmost strokes are「enter, put into, insertion」between「spread legs」and inside that is a「person.」Primarily, the MEATY BODY PARTS that are being referred to are in fact the same as colloquial, vulgar references in the English of today to one's MEAT, with all the sexual innuendo of a person inserting meat into the meat of another.
A「meat sacrifice」was the euphemism applied to a female giving up her normal life by having her feet no-longer-integrated and becoming「divine」as a hunk of meat and professional sexual services provider displayed in a「meat rack」of choices. In English also, people are often referred to as simply「bodies」such as with the terms some-body, every-body, any-body.
When appearing as an element, this element is often written the same as「mooning」(⺼), a deliberate display of groin MEAT used by primates 'in heat' of estrus to attract mates for copulation by assuming a proceptive lordosis position. Some modern fonts use「person piled atop person」as the inner elements, indicating either MEAT SACRIFICES or ORGIES (or both) as seen in related glyphs (㫺, 齒, 俎). And finally, the glyph resembles a MEAT「rack of hanging persons」such as might be found in a cannibal's butcher shop, or a business establishment serving cheap liquor that offers pole dancing as entertainment: a meat rack of flaunting groins.
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute
Japanese: flesh, meat, the physical body
Unihan extended: flesh; meat
EDRDG: meat
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 282 entries
Chinese usage: 232 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 11 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
齒Similar glyphs with related meanings: 20 entries
- Glyph.00639
- Strokes: 06 ~ 07
- jlpt-N4 grade_02
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