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「Insect comprehension」describes the manner in which crickets copulate, with the female mounting on top of many males, as「insect with repeated jism wads from spewing penis」:
「The mating behavior of crickets is fascinating. Unlike most of the animal kingdom, in the cricket world, the female is the one who does the mounting! …Even though male crickets have a variety of songs for different scenarios, the most common one you will hear on a summer night is the calling song (for attracting females). Female crickets can hear the males chirp through their front legs (that's where their ears are located) and they respond to the sound that is most appealing to them. If a female is attracted to a particular cricket's song, she will turn to face the direction of the sound. This works out well if the male is nearby enough to see her response. At this point, the male releases a small white sperm packet, the female climbs on top of him and receives the sperm packet. She climbs off of him and the sperm continues to pump into her for about 30 minutes. Now, here's where it gets interesting. The female can continue to mate with other male crickets and all of their sperm will stay inside her. According to recent studies, she can actually choose which male's sperm she will use to fertilize her eggs with! This is a natural way of preventing inbreeding and choosing the best qualified father of her offspring.」
[ https://cricket-breeding.com/how-do-crickets-mate/ 2013-10-19 ]
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: cricket
Unihan extended: cricket
EDRDG: cricket; grasshopper
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.
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Japanese vocabulary: 3 entries
Chinese usage: 3 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 7 entries
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- Strokes: 17
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