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Referring to the places under a roof outside the walls,「roof, out of reach」with「downward thrusting stream」that describes the rush and gush of rain water as it cascades off a roof where it gathered into small troughs and then became a stream thrust downward (by gravity), the EAVES.
「Surrounded from above, deliberately out-of-reach」with「among clouds」refers to that part of the sky which is always「in and among a dry stream」above all the clouds, that was the UNIVERSE, OUTER SPACE.
On old buildings constructed and used by the religious witch doctor shamans for providing various services, the outer walls were lined with a roofed but open walkway (the corridor, porch, veranda…a very large roof eave), and the inner portion of the building is where rooms were containing the service providers. Many of these same pagoda-style buildings in Japan are now being reused as Buddhist temples and Shintō shrines. Clients and service providers walked around the outer walkway to reach the designated location for providing services. The same structure attached to each floor above became the roof and eave of the floor below that was being used as an outer hallway, walking in heaven (above the ground level). In other words, this structure served both as a roof and a walkway, depending on what storey a person was located.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: room; universe
Japanese EDRDG: eaves, roof, house, heaven
Unihan extended: house; building, structure; eaves
Used within names (nanori)
いえ ・ たか ・ ひろ ・ ひろし
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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Japanese vocabulary: 104 entries
Chinese usage: 50 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 1 entry
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