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Meanings of elements
SPILLED SEEDS with STREAMING
…or: PLANT and IN AMONG HIGHS
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS with DRAINED STREAMS
Top element refers to any sort of「vegetation or plant life.」POTATOES are grown in「drained, dry」sandy soil, and the taters are found「in among」the taproots of the plant. Chinese use POTATO as a euphemism for an uneducated country yokel, and to refer to burying one's root into night soil via the anus of some animal or human. Digging taters requires a tool shaped much like this glyph, and uses a steady「stream of downward thrusting motions」to break up the surrounding soil, loosening the potatoes.
 POTATOES are a member of the Nightshade family, and therefore contain nicotine, which when ingested (or, more popularly today being inhaled or chewed from tobacco leaves) releases the best friend your brain ever had…dopamine (albeit from a potato in only small amounts…watch out for eggplant, too).「Plant with stream released from downward thrusting motions of penis」recalls that sexual activity in particular is a human's most efficient source of a naturally occurring dopamine release into the bloodstream…the ancient sages knew this, too. See the related glyph () for other causes of dopamine release.

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: taro; Colocasia antiquorum; Colocasia esculenta
Japanese: tuber, taro, potato, yokel, bumpkin, sweet-potato vines
Unihan extended: taro
EDRDG: potato

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 74 entries


Chinese usage: 17 entries


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