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Some sources explain elements as a broken set of bird wings (羽) directly opposite each other, or as a male otherwise unable to participate in 'courtship displays.' dis-integrating the wings and legs of a bird but not killing it kept it fresh for the remainder of the day until added to the fleshpot, with the added advantage of preventing its escape and not needing a cage during the trip home. An unnatural position as NOT NORMAL, no-longer-integrated, a condition that resulted in IRREGULAR MOVEMENT. Glyph using two「wings」also refers to the no-longer-integrated feet of a young girl (a 'chick'), in a condition that permits unnatural positions as NOT NORMAL, no-longer-integrated, a condition that resulted in IRREGULAR MOVEMENT. This glyph did not depict roadkill bird strikes since there were few fast-moving vehicles, nor were many people concerned about the ethical treatment of animals in the early days of humanity, or of young females and dis-integrating their feet, too, in order to prevent escape.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; to reproach or blame; (colloquial) to insist on; simply must; abbr. for 非洲 , Africa
Japanese EDRDG: un-, mistake, negative, injustice, non-
Unihan extended: not, negative, non-; oppose
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
Japanese vocabulary: 328 entries
Chinese usage: 241 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 61 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 40 entries
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- Strokes: 08
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