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Perhaps depicting the birth of a severely deformed or otherwise unwanted fetus that is ABANDONED to die, RENOUNCED as offspring, THROWN AWAY AS A CORPSE, RELINQUISH CONTROL and DESERTED AS DEAD.「Twisted emission」of a「newborn」infant wrapped in a cloth sash (帯) was not altogether uncommon. The severely deformed child may have been tossed into the nearest river, to be washed away and the corpse not seen.「Newborn」as「palm down, curled and dripping」may be the glyph for「child」written inverted as the normal position of delivery from the birth canal, or as「covered with diseased stench cloud」may also have referred to a sick newborn. Middle element perhaps depicts a「sash」on two tied,「flattened breasts」also indicating that the newborn is not to be fed, and to conceal from others the enlarged breasts a woman normally has at the birth of a child, so that others might not discern that she has just given birth. Original meaning of the English word 'monster' is a fetus or an infant that is grotesquely abnormal, and while the probability of one specific birth defect may be quite low, the combined probability of any one of hundreds of birth defects occurring is startlingly high…in many such cases though, the fetus spontaneously aborts prior to full term. While today many birth defects can be mitigated with surgery and medical care, 4,000 years ago folks were likely to pitch the infant into the nearest river (or in an earlier time as other glyphs depict, humans being cannibals…).
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to abandon; to relinquish; to discard; to throw away
Japanese EDRDG: abandon, throw away, discard, resign, reject, sacrifice
Unihan extended: reject, abandon, discard
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: 80 entries
Chinese usage: 48 entries
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