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A CORMORANT is a bird in the same family as pelicans: a ring is tied around the base of the cormorant's long throat that prevents it from swallowing any fish it catches. The bird is secured to a rope tether that can be retrieved by the human in control. After the bird catches fish and is retrieved, the human performs an action upon the bird's throat by grasping it and sliding the hand up until the fishes pop out of the cormorant's mouth. Many birds at once are controlled by a single human sitting in a boat with the birds circling and fishing. The human's hand actions on all the birds in the group and subsequent ejaculation of fish from its bill are akin to the「circle jerking」element (鵁). Jerking the noisy, flapping birds by the neck back into the boat, and then jerking the fishes out of each one's throat, seems to be「savagery with birds」(鴺). A vivid example of human beings as parasites,「shafting the bird」(蔦) of its meal and labor.
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: cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo); same as 鸕鷀|鸬鹚
Unihan extended: the fishing cormorant
EDRDG: the fishing cormorant
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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Chinese usage: 2 entries
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- Strokes: 21 ～ 20
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