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Depicting when one's「head with face downward cogitating」and「heart, mind, spirit」(appearance, thoughts and feelings) are turned upside down or falling slowly down. Variations are based upon how you wish to interpret all the suggested meanings of the bottom-most element. MELANCHOLY, PENSIVE, SADNESS, MOURNING, GRIEF caused by the death of one's parents while still a child. Hence, how one's next meal will be provided is in question, as an ORPHANED CHILD having no one to give care.
ANXIETY as child contemplates the necessity now of working for the shaman to be「surrounded by spewing penis head in crotch and spread feet.」Some suggest the child is「cogitating, think about」becoming a lowly circus performer in order to earn some daily rice.
Elements also seem to depict DESPAIR with NO HOPE, NO FUTURE and nothing anyone can do about it, so the sufferer may as well simply jerk off and die, let the infection run its course as it were.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to worry; to concern oneself with; worried; anxiety; sorrow; a parent's funeral; inconvenienced by being orphaned
Japanese EDRDG: melancholy, grieve, lament, be anxious, sad, unhappy
Unihan extended: sad, grieved; grief, melancholy
Used within names (nanori)
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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?
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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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 66 entries
Chinese usage: 33 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 6 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 91 entries
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- Strokes: 15
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