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「Cloth used for extraction, cloth for rod's plugged orifice, cloth with a cause」perhaps relates to the English expression,「wearing one's heart on one's sleeve」(more likely, the original phrase was「wearing one's heart in a sleeve」) with the limited understanding that 心 exclusively meant 'heart' as smarmy jargon brought back to Britain by the expelled drug lords who peddled opium: HIDING AN ITEM by wearing one's 心 appendage spewing venom within a SLEEVE would convey to everyone just how bad the condition actually was/is, and therefore was some sort of plea for sympathy, an expression of how painfully sensitive the genitals were…how the sufferer felt would then have been obvious to other people. Netting with sleeves were used to hold medical herbs in place when treating an infection in a poultice applied to one's 心, a spewing appendage. See all the related glyphs combining meanings of SLEEVE with a stinky, pulled-to-one-side, rancid sticky fluids with a burning short arm within.
HIDING ITEMS in one's sleeve also applies in Japanese: a kimono style of clothing has long, large, square sleeves into which small items might be hidden or carried, such as keys, a wallet, smokes and a lighter, etc., and from which these items must later be「extracted.」Pockets are not normally found on traditional Japanese formal clothing. A SLEEVE of clothing being worn is a sort of「clothing, plugged orifice」requiring「vertical motion」in order to「extract」each arm.
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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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 22 entries
- Glyph.11397
- Strokes: 17
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