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Top elements「pulling to one side, pulling out of the normal shape」with「biting tool, chewing」inserted inside, together with「sticky fluids streaming in all directions.」Considering the given meanings, all indicate the process of reaming the urethra with a bougie while treating a gonorrhea infection by gouging into a male's wood. It would then have been important not only to scratch the inside surfaces, but also to keep a record of the daily flow amounts during the treatment period. It should be no surprise that the color of gonorrhea gleet is often green, or yellowish-green.
Putting the three possibilities together, perhaps the glyph represents a daily record or count of days of a flow of pig snot, as an indicator of the dates or length of time a specific pig was sick and therefore contagious to other pigs, in order to determine how long to continue keeping the animal quarantined.
Top element may also be「juxtaposed pig snouts」perhaps to indicate that the illness is contagious and may be transmitted between pigs in a transfer of mucus when one licks or touches another's snout (pigs do that). Meanings of ETCH and CARVE into wood perhaps referring to these tally marks on a barn wall counting the days being RECORDED by illiterate Chinese pig farmers. Note that modern fonts tend to display the lower element of「sticky fluid」more as「water」but traditional fonts use the original element of「sticky fluid.」…「pig snout water」might be just as informative.
Finally, it should be noted that a bacterial infection within mammalian mucous membranes is often (but not always) green, or greenish in color. Some infections are dull yellow, of course. See 菉…and that「pig snout」is a euphemism for the human male penis.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to carve wood
Japanese EDRDG: to carve wood
Unihan extended: to carve wood
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
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 17 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 25 entries
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- Strokes: 08
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