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RYU U ・ RU
to me ru ・ to ma ru ・ to do me ru ・ to do ma ru ・ ru u bu ru
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「Dazzling filled orifice」fundamentally seems to mean FASTENED TOGETHER, something that obviously will DETAIN a while in order to STOP and FASTEN THE CONNECTION, or「hook up」as said in the vernacular.
Modern usages also seem to be a PRONGED HEAD, or, a LOOSE tongue due to usage of this element to replace others with simplification. One quick way to stop, or at least slow down most animals is to BIFURCATE THE HEAD, causing「loose stuff to fly out.」The second, seemingly unrelated meaning is because this same element was used to simplify LOOSE TONGUES of many birds chirping in a nest (so say the pundits), also a concept of PRONGED HEADS (甾) that appear bifurcated, i.e., a gaggle of hungry pre-fledgelings vying for regurgitus from a parent bird and hoping for hooking up and receiving a「filled mouth」that together resemble Medusa's nest of snakes, also fits both meanings, which is perhaps why it was selected as the simplified version…snakes also seem to have LOOSE TONGUES.
Snakes and other reptiles have「branching, skilled glans」(岐) as a PRONGED BIFURCATED HEAD:「A hemipenis (plural hemipenes) is one of a pair of intromittent organs of male squamates (snakes, lizards and worm lizards). Hemipenes are usually held inverted, within the body, and are everted for reproduction via erectile tissue, much like that in the human penis. Only one is used at a time, and evidence indicates males alternate use between copulations as a behavioral means of increasing sperm transfer when the interval between copulations is relatively brief. The hemipenis itself has a variety of shapes, depending on species. Often, the hemipenis bears spines or hooks, in order to anchor the male within the female. Some species even have forked hemipenes (each hemipenis has two tips).」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemipenis 2014-06-23 ]
Scholars explain this element means to stop an opponent's incoming lance or sword blow, catching it between the prongs of a defense weapon by hooking up with it.
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)
Unihan extended: stop, halt; stay, detain, keep
EDRDG: fasten; halt; stop
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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Used in glyphs (or, see also): 11 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 7 entries
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- Strokes: 08
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