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「Fleshpot」and「snake」depicts cooking meat for a long time, especially snake meat which is a bit tougher than pork, cat, or puppy, in order to SOFTEN, DISSOLVE both the tough meat and the many bones, making both pleasantly palatable. Cooking meat long enough in a large pot and it is sure to SOFTEN, FALL APART or DISSOLVE, including even the toughest, stringiest of snake meat.
Cauldron depicted here had three hollow legs that were filled with water prior to setting the pot over coals, creating a large, steamy fleshpot with meat juices seething from the hollow shaft of the legs set into the embers. THAW is also a meaning of「soften, fall apart after being heated or warmed for a long time」and while there were not too many freezers in the early days, the winters were long and cold.
More to the point for HARMONIOUS cohabitation, in addition to SOFTENING someone's meat and THAWING someone who was frigid refers to a changing attitude. Recall that「snake」is comprised of the elements「bent dripping short leg amidst the genitalia, two-sided.」
HARMONY is a relationship characterized by a lack of conflict, and while generally today thought of as a good ideal, harmony is not necessarily the result of all good or benign influences—a harmony of evil can and does occur quite often in the world, with all participants not in conflict about a common goal or purpose. See similar glyphs.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to melt; to thaw; to blend; to merge; to be in harmony
Japanese EDRDG: dissolve, melt
Unihan extended: melt, fuse; blend, harmonize
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.
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Japanese vocabulary: 117 entries
Chinese usage: 82 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 44 entries
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- Strokes: 16
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