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Top element as「melody, song」with lower element「furrowed lips and slits」again suggests AGRICULTURE as the work tasks and domain of early females, likely nude in the old days,「curved and loosened」bent over planting, weeding, or harvesting while singing songs to coordinate their movements to the rhythm and relieve boredom. Males hunted small furry animals such as rabbits, or jerked off while watching from behind trees…males were not the 'power in the rice paddy' many folks assume—females were.
「Morally abhorrent」with「dragon」: peasant FARMERS were often kept alive at a subsistence level by lords, causing many serfs to sell their daughters to the wealthy folks in order for both the daughters and the remaining family members to stay alive, leading to the「morally abhorrent」practice (top element) of peddling「slits with lips and no-longer-integrated feet」(lower element). The source of the singing girls purchased by the wealthy merchants and aristocracy,「melody with lips slit」were the farmer's daughters. The farmers themselves took a few morally abhorrent liberties too it seems, as depicted in many other glyphs.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: peasant; to farm; agriculture; diligent (old); government field official (old)
Japanese EDRDG: agriculture, farmers
Unihan extended: agriculture, farming; farmer
Used within names (nanori)
な ･ の ･ み
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: 154 entries
Chinese usage: 100 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 9 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 16 entries
- Glyph.06832
- Strokes: 13
- jlpt-N3 grade_03
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