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The English expression of「escaping by the skin of my teeth」makes no sense of course, but the original form of「escaping with my skin in her teeth」does indeed represent narrowly avoiding disaster of one's prepuce and surroundings.
「Sharp protrusions while in front view of naked genitalia」may refer to bone splints emerging from no-longer-integrated feet (over time) that resemble「bird claws」(鄢).「Fangs with vagina」or a「vagina with fangs」would explain all the given Chinese definitions, from either a male or a female perspective. Nevertheless, most female humans do not have teeth in their actual vaginal cavity, yet in dynastic China surrogate vaginal cavities constructed in no-longer-integrated feet would from time to time burst a bone splinter as a sharp protuberance, and surrogate vagina cavities of an oral orifice did indeed contain teeth, at least at a mostly young age, used vengefully when clenching (see 'teeth' 歯 and 齒).
Interestingly, the males of most mammalian species are indeed equipped with penile barbs that upon penetration resemble「fangs in a vagina」and may be one cause of animals howling while copulating…domestic male cats for example, have about 150 or so backward-facing pricks on the penis, presumably to prevent penalties for an early withdrawal before leaving a deposit.
Snakes in fact have「fangs in vagina」(the cloaca, actually, a snake's equivalent to a vagina). Snakes have vestigial hind legs, claw-like appendages that are held inside around the cloaca (the orifice used for copulation) called 'anal spurs,' barbs with which the female snake firmly attaches herself to the skin of the male snake during reproduction. The male snake possesses the same inner barbs but also has forked hemipenes normally held inside the body ('short legs' with two forked seminal troughs that are always 'loose and dripping' since they are not fully closed), and also attaches barbs to the inside walls of the female's cloaca…while the male snake possesses a forked penis, note that he normally does not copulate with two females simultaneously.
CLENCHING and related problems and fears are present in these glyphs:
歯 and 齒 as teeth.
恨 regret, hate, resentment, rueful, hold a grudge, malice, bitter feeling, rancor, to curse and swear.
艮 chewing.
仡 being fed up with conditions and bravely doing something about it while unafraid of the consequences.
旡 suddenly choking on something in one's throat.
兂 clasped with teeth.
邪 wickedly demonic.
拑 pinning with clenched teeth.
音 loud noise.
既 and 既 too late, happened already, unchangeable.
茱 and 萸 bloody stump, dogwood.
飢 ravenously chomping meat.
啗 enticing lure, gnawing meat.
啖 threaten a superior, taunt and torment, reckless endangerment while tasting and eating.
猖 ferocious and insane, mad, reckless, not following the rules.
惕 healthy respect of danger.
𣇄 and 晣 biting off a chunk, bent by tonguing mouth.
惮 and 憚 fear, dread, shirking, shrunk.
喫 clenching with gasps.
吃 and 喫 extirpate, destroy utterly.
揕 bare-fisted jab, punch in the face.
意 long in thought, intent, concerns.
貇 tenaciously clenching jaw and not letting go.
虞 horror, terror, terrorism.
鉗 clamp and gag.
𪗱 and 齟 discord, broken teeth.
𪘚 and 齬 gritting one's teeth, great hatred.
齭 pain caused by teeth.
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: demonic; iniquitous; nefarious; evil; unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine)
Japanese: wicked, evil
Unihan extended: wrong, evil, depraved, vicious, perverse, heterodox
EDRDG: wicked; injustice; wrong
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
Japanese vocabulary: 94 entries
Chinese usage: 64 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 3 entries
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齒Similar glyphs with related meanings: 37 entries
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- Strokes: 07 ~ 08
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