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This glyph is associated with a doll festival held annually March 3, celebrating「underaged prepubescent girls」and interestingly,「chicks」and「dolls」are both names for young human females in English also, terms that were probably brought back home by upper-class English opium pushers living in China (or,「drug lords」).「Hayroll, fodder」is a consumable item (hay or grass eaten by large farm animals), an often inferior item or resource (treated as having little or no value), that is in demand (to be devoured, or, to be rolled in the hay) and usually in abundant supply (there were always 'too many' little girls since parents wanted boys in China. Girls were 'inferior, treated as having little or no value' except when sold as sex slaves)…that was the world back then, folks…maybe, still is.
The doll festival nowadays in Japan is purported to celebrate healthy little girls. See 丹秀雛 and the Hina Matsuri, or little girl festival:「…the origin of this custom of Japanese Hinamatsuri, could be said that it dates all the way back to ancient China. In ancient China, it is told that there was a custom for people to go into the river, to purify themselves on the first snake day that comes at the beginning of lunar March (calendars corresponded to Oriental zodiac animals as well as several other things such as time, year and direction ). This custom is said to have derived from a Yao (an ethnic minority hill tribe originating in southern China) tribal custom, a festival of spring worship in southern and southwestern China. The Yao custom of this spring festival, is told to worship dead females along the riverside on the 3rd day of the 3rd month of the lunar year…」
[ https://www.bite-japan.com/kako/calendar03-e.html 2014-02-15, emphasis ours] but no mention is made of the cause of death, such as a gangrenous foot infection. Hinamatsuri in Japan is celebrated in various ways, two of which are drinking of thick, paste-like, sweet amazake, and eating Venus clams (hamaguri)…you guess why. Hinamatsuri is also referred to as 'Peach Flowering,' and while there are peach blossoms in early March in Japan, there is also some similarity between the shape and skin texture of peaches, very young girls, and blossom flowering/deflowering. The Japanese did not practice foot dis-integrating, generally, and merely copied the Chinese by adopting similar festivals without knowing the original purposes behind the traditions. Profuse bleeding after a botched foot-dis-integrating and cinnabar accounted for the traditional red carpeting used under the figurines.
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: chick; young bird
Japanese: young bird, chick, doll, green, wet behind the ears, juvenile, sweetened rice-flour cakes for offering at the Dolls' Festival
Unihan extended: chick, fledging; infant, toddler
EDRDG: chick; squab; duckling; doll
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: 37 entries
Chinese usage: 14 entries
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