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ARRIVE AT AN IMPORTANT DECISION BY PULLING OPEN, ONE SIDE PULLED, ONE SIDE MISSHAPEN, MEDICAL INSPECTION FOR SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE SYMPTOMS and BIRD
The given meanings represent all different species: tailorbird, weaverbird, shrike, and cuckoo, yet all exhibit the characteristic of「pulling to one side.」The tailorbird pulls one side of a large leaf over and stitches the side closed, forming a cone in which it builds its nest. The weaverbird weaves its nest from materials with an opening below and to one side, enabling access. Shrikes impale prey and then pull it apart one side at a time while eating. Cuckoos are unusual in that after seizing prey, the bird rubs one side against something hard, such as a branch, causing one side to be misshapen prior to devouring it. Likely, no explanation is necessary for TAILORBIRD (bird using needles, as does a tailor) or BUTCHERBIRD (cutting meat) or the other「birds.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: tailorbird (Orthotomus spp.); weaver bird (family Ploceidae); variant of 鴃 , shrike; cuckoo
Japanese EDRDG: the tailor-bird, a working bird
Unihan extended: the tailor-bird; the working bird

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.


Chinese usage: 2 entries


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