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[ https://www.pheasantsforever.org/Habitat/Pheasant-Facts.aspx 2023-05-17 ]
「In training courtship display」also describes female pheasants that seemingly are in need of further training when nesting and roosting:「After fertilization takes place, courtship ends. The hen chooses a nest site, lays and incubates the eggs, and broods the chicks with no help from the male, whose reproductive role ends with mating. Early in the nesting season, hens may seem rather careless about egg laying. Eggs may be dropped at random and left unconcealed. Later, a hen may initiate a nest, lay a few eggs in it, and then abandon it. Frequently, several hens lay eggs in a single nest, termed a 'dump nest' by biologists. It is not uncommon for a dump nest to contain 20 to 30 eggs. As spring progresses, random egg laying ceases. Pheasants are ground nesters, whose nests consist of small depressions lined with grass, leaves and other plant material. …Hens that lose early nests and choose small grain fields as renesting sites may also be successful…. A nesting hen lays eggs at a rate of about one per day. She remains at the nest only to deposit eggs, which may number from one to 20 when the clutch is completed…. During egg laying, the hen seems only a casual visitor to the nest, staying just long enough to deposit each egg.」
[ link now-dead was https://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/pheasant/spring.htm 2012-12-28 ]
Interestingly, some Japanese versions of this glyph use multiple「grasping and reaming」(⺕) elements or「gushing chunks」(勿, without the 'head' attached) rather than the two congealing no-longer-integrated feet elements used in traditional Chinese glyphs, yet both sets of elements could describe a PLUME, only that in the Japanese case the referent may be to release of a long, arching discharge of fluids under pressure by a medical services provider rather than to no-longer-integrated feet that were not commonly found in Japan. Needless to point out perhaps is that the Chinese uses of no-longer-integrated feet (upper elements) also were designed to cause the same sort of release of fluids under pressure in long, arching spurts skyward, and at times gushing a few chunks.
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: long-tail pheasant
Unihan extended: surname; a kind of pheasant; plumes
EDRDG: surname; kind of pheasant
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: 4 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 16 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 21 entries
- Glyph.07890
- Strokes: 14
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