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Not coincidentally, resembles the torii gates that mark the entrances to Shintō shrines in Japan…torii means 'birds are there' (鳥居) as a translation that some people explain refers to the pigeons roosting atop the gate at times, and that may be so, but 'bird, chick' is also a euphemism from China that refers to sex slaves, or sexual services providers, who initially were available for short-term rentals at such shrines in China, formerly operated by shamans, the first religion of humanity.「Bird」is also a reference to a male cock, two in this glyph, i.e., RAISED IN TWO HANDS of a service provider, or, of two buddies. 'flipping the bird' in English is an unequivocal reference that suggests the self-stimulation of one's penis by grasping it with a hand and manipulating it up and down with a light brisk wrist motion that is「flipping」or changing the position from one of a lowered dangle to one of RAISED and erect, for a while at least.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: even level. to raise in both hands
Japanese EDRDG: put together
Unihan extended: even level. to raise in both hands
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.
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