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「Loose with loose and dripping small stream」of the left elements refer to the thick protein liquids drawn from the spinneret of a silk caterpillar that harden into cocoon thread upon contact with air. A「loose and dripping small stream」is also apropos of PAINTING an IMAGE that exists on a cavern wall or some solid material. The action of painting with loose and dripping fluids is also the action of DRAWING, that is PULLING the fluids into the desired shape using a finger, brush, stick or some other implement. A 'drawer' is something pulled out to enable access. One's 'drawers' are pulled onto one's legs when worn. TO DRAW means「cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading」
[ https://www.thefreedictionary.com/draw ]
Some have suggested EMBROIDERY「threads」that are deliberately kept「loosened on both sides」to avoid distorting the shape of the decorative picture on the face side, and form a「balanced」image of the other side after passing through the underlying fabric, but embroidery was invented long after cave painting.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to draw; to paint
Japanese EDRDG: picture, drawing, painting, sketch
Unihan extended: draw, sketch, paint
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.
Primal elements
Chinese usage: 12 entries
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