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「Cattle that have been sealed off, blocked」from a line of cattle that have now become extinct, wild Asian aurochs. A breed of cattle that can endure tropical heat, and continue working. ZEBU are good work animals, and are well-known to make a fine gift for any occasion:
「They are characterised by a fatty hump on their shoulders, drooping ears and a large dewlap. They are well adapted to withstanding high temperatures, and are farmed throughout the tropical countries, both as pure zebu and as hybrids with taurine cattle, the other main type of domestic cattle. Zebu are used as draught oxen, as dairy cattle and as beef cattle, as well as for byproducts such as hides and dung for fuel and manure. …Zebu cattle are thought to be derived from Asian aurochs, sometimes regarded as a subspecies, Bos primigenius namadicus. Wild Asian aurochs disappeared during the time of the Indus Valley Civilization.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebu 2013-08-27 ]
Need to decide on a gift? give a ZEBU!.
Actually though, these elements represent the ZEBU perhaps due to the fatty hump on their shoulders, drooping ears and a large dewlap, since the animal may also have given some inebriated Chinese sages the appearance of having had a large buttocks plug inserted, or had its ass-end squished by a huge hand, causing severe「fecal compaction with a squeezing grip」that created the hump(s) on their shoulders, drooping ears and large dewlap.
「Head sliding when hitched and squeezed」also describes a beast of burden working a plow.
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: zebu; indicus cattle; humped ox
Unihan extended: the zebu, or humped-ox
EDRDG: the zebu; humped-ox
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
Chinese usage: 2 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 7 entries
- Glyph.07639
- Strokes: 13
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