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「Bird」in China euphemistically depicted sex organs, as in the English 'flip someone the bird,' with a pecker, a hard tapered poking head on an elongated twisting neck, scavenging.「Netting for preserving and maintaining one's ejaculation bird, mating display」was a GAUZE POULTICE used to GATHER INTO A BUNDLE one's bird meat prior to engaging in a courtship or mating display with birds of the other sex…same function as a codpiece worn by Europeans in order to keep one clean and「preserve, maintain」conditions, GATHERING the poultice contents in LIGHTWEIGHT CLOTH that permitted some exchange of air.
「Netting of threads for birds copulating」used to entrap birds that were momentarily preoccupied, used effectively throughout the United States of America in conjunction with stool pigeons to harvest the precursors of today's ever-popular nuggets, SNARE for HOLDING MEAT.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift
Japanese EDRDG: gauze, thin silk, Rome
Unihan extended: net for catching birds; gauze
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: 130 entries
Chinese usage: 303 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 10 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 8 entries
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- Strokes: 19
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