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「Duckweeds, or water lentils, are aquatic plants which float on or just beneath the surface of still or slow-moving fresh water bodies and wetlands.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemnoideae 2013-04-25 ]
Duckweed requires a large volume of fluids in order to thrive.「Plants repeated frequency, walking with head down and ducking」refers to dodging low-hanging apples from tree branches, perhaps…or folks one does not wish to meet again. Also APPLE, and the practice of bobbing for apples in a tub of fluid, a bobbing head chasing a moving and bobbing red orb as an ancient Chinese game.
「Duckweed has been consumed for hundreds of years in Southeast Asia, where it is known as 'vegetable meatball' due to its high-protein content -- more than 45% of the dry matter. It includes the complete protein profile of eggs, containing all nine essential and six conditional amino acids. In addition, Mankai is very rich in polyphenols, mainly phenolic acids and flavonoids (including catechins), dietary fibers, minerals (including iron and zinc), vitamin A, vitamin B complex, and vitamin B12 , which is rarely produced by plants.」
[ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190805134034.htm 2019-08-06 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: apple; marsiliaceae; clover fern
Japanese EDRDG: duckweed
Unihan extended: apple
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: 11 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 6 entries
- Glyph.12155
- Strokes: 19 ~ 20
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