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「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture…Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's [no-longer-integrated] bound feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
Elements are「rod of male adult, blasting discharge, change of state growing longer with streaming」that the Chinese source defines as BUTYL, a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9) used in making gasoline components due to its high flammability.
What occurs when many people are STANDING IDLY in a line that is progressing only slowly, folks milling about with PURPOSELESS MOTIONS…but all of them with a singleness of purpose nonetheless. A「line of blasting rods」may be the reason for the long line, with a man or boy holding his 'burning shaft' while standing in the waiting line outside the cave o' wonders (see related glyph, 火 as「emissions of person, taut erection」or possible as「in pursuit of service provider, sitting person」).
Despite the shape of the strokes today, scholars conjecture that 亍 is 'stepping with the right foot' as a mirrored element of 'stepping with the left foot' (彳) and together forming the glyph「to go.」…nevertheless, stepping only with one foot (either the left or the right) and assuming that while doing so the subject does not fall down, normally causes movement within a fairly small circle, no matter how large or small the steps taken happen to be, or, causes one to drag a foot as might Igor the hunchback. However, both left and right feet in purposeless motion aimlessly does apply to a line of males loitering in a brothel queue and dawdling whilst awaiting admittance. See 行 for the actual integrated meaning of the elements and all its various applications.
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: step with the right foot
Unihan extended: to take small steps; Korean place name
EDRDG: to take small steps; Korean place name
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
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 183 entries
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- Strokes: 03
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