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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
ホウ ・ ビョウ
HO U ・ BYO U
Kun-yomi
はまぐり ・ どぶが(い
ha ma gu ri ・ do bu ga i

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Meanings of elements
HARD-BODIED SNAKE SMEARED WITH MOTHER-OF-PEARL and STRETCHED TAUT, LEASHED UNDER THE CONTROL OF ANOTHER, OTHER SIDE OF SOMETHING with RECIPROCATING MOTION OF ROD STALK OR STEM and TWO, CHANGE OF PHYSICAL STATE
…or: SNAKE, WORM, PATHOGENS, CORKSCREW DEMONS with VOLUNTARY DEDICATED OBEDIENCE
…or: SNAKE, WORM, PATHOGENS, CORKSCREW DEMONS with PRICK TAUT TWICE in VERTICAL RECIPROCATING ROD MOTIONS
Species of clam named after Venus, the Roman goddess of desire, sex, love, beauty, and fertility. Species of clam that when closed, the clamshell strongly resembles a pair of no-longer-integrated feet juxtaposed symmetrically. Known to survive over 500 years, LONG-LIVED. The foot of the clam is a delicacy in Japan and China, eaten raw. Naturally, these clams are also used as fish bait. The clam, similar to Chinese service providers, has limited locomotion in that it is able to burrow via use of its muscular foot. However, they are generally sedentary if left undisturbed. Symbolizes long life, dedicated service, and a matched pair since each side of the shell are often nearly symmetrical, not unlike the most desired and the most expensive no-longer-integrated feet in China. Venus clams are traditionally eaten in Japan on March 3, the Hina-matsuri (literally,「chick fodder festival」) that in China, where it originated, celebrated initiates of foot-dis-integrating, often girls aged younger than 7 years. However in Japan, symmetrically pulverizing the bones in both feet of little girls never caught on like it did in dynastic China, so the matched pair concept in Japan was adapted to be the hope for a long marriage with a fitting partner, it is now claimed.

External source definitions
none located, and you ought to ask yourself, why not?
definition speculated from combining the elements, or, from usage in other glyphs

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.


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