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「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ] Don't forget, if the girls were sold into prostitution, then the corollary is that someone else was buying them as personal sex slaves to take home.
CROOKED, BENT, CURVED, WARPED:「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…. Women, their families, and their husbands took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
Represented in the old glyph as「pricks in adjoining cavities with clitoris」(豐) in addition to no-longer-integrated feet, the vaginal and anal orifices were of course also employed, naturally (or, unnaturally?):「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
Meaning WARPED as in a MORAL ABERRATION, a distorted moral perspective, a reference to the use of「singing girls, melodies」and that particular brand of siren song they sung so well (sex, adept tonguing). A DIVA is a highly distinguished female singer, and the word originates from「divine, a goddess, a really good singing girl」who was trained as the apprentice of a divining female, the local shaman witch doctor…「singing girl」is a Chinese euphemism for a superb sexual services provider who can use her tongue well as a professional fellatrix, or because she causes her clientele to cry out loud and burst into hollering song. Shamans sold the services of these girls, and sold the girls themselves, too…called 'witch doctors' because they also sold divination services along with sex, and attempted to doctor you up after you contracted a sexually transmitted infectious disease.
It may just be mere coincidence, but this element is comprised of「six orifices」all packed as one unit, the right and left no-longer-integrated feet, anus, vagina, mouth, and cupped hands around a breast tit set working jointly. According to some sources, the Chinese Dragon Emperor was supplied with a set of「six concubine orifices」every three days for deflowering, a prime example of MORAL ABERRATION, in addition to literally thousands of other women at his disposal. Based upon substitutions used in other glyphs, this element may refer both to MORAL ABERRATION and to MELODY, MUSICAL NOTES due to multiple elements meaning「dewy, sticky fluid flowing down from inside spread legs」as entertaining oneself with more than one concubine/ singing girl simultaneously in a single session (related glyph) that today have merged into this one element.
Some scholars suggest this is a piling on of multiple「falling drops of brown sticky liquid」elements, or「a web of crotches.」Some other suggest this as depicting the warp threads of a loom, which were CURVED, BENT and WARPED when relaxed and no one was treading on the treadles that somehow or other refers to the flow of notes of a MELODY that generally follows a curvy line of notes, but not why looms were morally abhorrent.
Selling sex, sex with children, same sex pairings and so on have been a ubiquitous staple of humanity since before the beginning until quite recent law changes:「Historical accounts from the 18th century indicate that adult-child sex (particularly same-sex pairings) were an accepted practice in China, Japan, Africa, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the Islamic areas of India (Trumbach, 1977). In 19th century London the going price for a virginal, 12-year-old girl, of good background, was reported to be 400 pounds (Bullough, 1964).」
[ https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/legal-social-and-biological-definitions-pedophilia 2012-01-01 ]
As depicted in erotic Chinese art, men in dynastic China masturbated by wrapping no-longer-integrated feet around an erect penis ostensibly to lower the risk of contracting a sexually transmissible disease or infection that often occurred when performing coitus within some sort of mucous membrane system of a female service provider, and, to gain hand-control over the pressure applied to the foot meat surrounding a weakened penis that functioned as a living cockring.
Without a doubt, the Irish also have knowledge of their own to pass along in these trying times:「Masturbation will not spread coronavirus, especially if you wash your hands (and any sex toys) with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before and after.」Nonetheless and regrettably, unlike in dynastic China, it must be undertaken alone to truly be a preventative countermeasure but still achieve the desired result with some degree of safety.
[ https://www.sexualwellbeing.ie/sexual-health/sex-and-coronavirus/ 2020-03-31 ]
The Dutch, too have the same solution—it seems masturbation has become mainstream in the media the world over due to the coronavirus (it has always been 'the main stream' in reality, albeit covertly for most folks):
「'Don't have sex with your partner if they have been isolated because of (suspected) coronavirus infection,' the RVIM says. 'Sex with yourself or with others at a distance is possible (think of telling erotic stories, masturbating together).'」
[ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/dutch-official-advice-to-single-people-find-a-sex-buddy-for-lockdown-coronavirus 2020-05-16 ]
Needless to point out perhaps, but Chinese shamans from antiquity hit upon the same solution as a pandemic preventative countermeasure, honed for ultimate client satisfaction by utilizing naked females with no-longer-integrated feet as masturbatory sex buddies available for short-term rental with erotic visualization of live prepubescent female genitalia engaging in autoerotic stimulation herself, as a solution to the same problem facing us now, but in pre-Internet days.
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: tune; song; bent; crooked; wrong
Japanese: tune, piece of music, wrong, improper, indecent, corner, nook, recess, a shadow, a shade, wickedness, evil, calamity, disaster, flexure, bending, to bend, to curve, to warp, to wind, to twist, to turn, to be awry, to be askew, to be crooked, winding, twisting, zigzagging, curvature, to crook, to lean, to yield, to depart, bent, curved, warped, winded, twisted, ominous, sinister, unlucky, ill-omened, annoying, appearing to be true
Unihan extended: crooked, bent; wrong, false
EDRDG: bend; music; melody; composition; pleasure; injustice; fault; curve; crooked; perverse; to lean
Used within names (nanori)
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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: 311 entries
Chinese usage: 259 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 50 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 40 entries
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