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  • Glyph.00077
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幺
幺

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⺕ウ
YO U
Kun-yomi
ちいさい
chi i sa i

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く
Meanings of elements
LOOSE UNBOUND with DRIPPING STENCH CLOUD
…or: emphasis on even more emphasis on LOOSE DRIPPING STENCH, SELF SECRET PRIVATE
[Elements vary by font; variant of 吆 a non-JIS glyph comprised of 幺 with a hole, orifice ] As the「short thread radical」you need to understand how a silk caterpillar, after completing metamorphosis into a moth, escapes the cocoon. The animal releases proteolytic enzymes that create a hole in one end (吆), breaking down the silk fibers. Once the hole is open, the moth can climb out, but creating the hole also cuts the single long silk thread that formed the cocoon into tens of thousands of useless short threads only a tiny fraction of the original length. YOUNG, TINY, TENDER refer to the newly-hatched moth, the tiny short threads of the now-empty cocoon, and the still soft body of the emerging animal, respectively. Note also that raw silk threads are rather stinky.
「Loose amorphous shape, potentially odoriferous dripping with stench」refers to SCREAMING AND HOLLERING, WHAT!? being YOUNG, TINY, TENDER and sore, the need for fiber bandages. Newly bludgeoned no-longer-integrated feet of a small girl child (perhaps represented by the two く elements), rancid diseased tissue, and a single silk fiber are all DIFFICULT TO LOOK AT or SEE, the former due to being bound all the time by the wrappings that stick to and cut into the flesh, the latter due to being bound by thousands of other sticky wrapped fiber segments. MYSTERIOUS since it cannot be clearly seen or understood, OBSCURED. A PROFESSIONAL level of skill is also required to clean properly harvested silk fibers, a gangrenous bound and no-longer-integrated foot, and syphilitic necrosis of other bodily appendages.
The ONE is recognition of what is generally the ONE most important thing to any male, his「head sliding loose and dripping」and while a male may not fully agree with that assessment, try imagining living life without THAT ONE after amputation or some other「head loose and dripping」problem SCREAMING AND HOLLERING, WHAT!?
「Loose, dripping with stench」may refer to ONE UNWOUND FIBER from a newly-formed silk cocoon while the fiber is still coated with the sticky and stinky protein sericin prior to processing in order to produce thread, and the caterpillar is still inside as yet not having completed its metamorphosis. Cocoon fibers consist mainly of two proteins: fibroin which is the odorless strong core used to make silk, and sericin which is the sticky, stinky glue-like substance that holds a cocoon together and is supposed to be washed away prior to spinning the fiber into thread. Glyph also appears as one side of a figure-eight, the shape used by caterpillars to form cocoons from a SINGLE FIBER of silk that is very fine but long, perhaps 1,000 meters in length and twisted into 300,000 figure-eight shapes by the caterpillar (related glyph depicts spiral, spinning, twisting, a figure-eight shape).
「Loose, dripping with stench」may also refer to the figure-eight-shaped wrapping used around the genitals to hold poultices and discharged material after catching a disease. A figure-eight-shaped wrapping was used around both feet to hold in the bones, toes and loose meat after dis-integrating.
Some scholars say「loose」with 「short arm」refers to the drop spindle arm of a spinning wheel into which silk fibers are gathered and wound into thickening threads.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: youngest; most junior; tiny; one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military); one or ace on dice or dominoes; variant of 吆 , to shout
Unihan extended: one; tiny, small

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? (More...) 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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