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Perhaps「mouth and tail」as a SNAKE, according to some of the oldest sources (see 虬 for example), as the original meaning of this glyph, and WORM with a snake-like shape, or CATERPILLAR (not worms, but snake-like), and INSECTS that metamorphose from worm-like, worm-shaped larvae.「Orifice (mouth of the animal or the wound in the victim) biting and dripping」as a SNAKE or INSECT.
「Rowdy accusation blame」or「orifice」with「loose dripping stink」describes a condition similar to that of maggots colonizing meat, recalling that maggots are in fact INSECT LARVAE.
Suggestions of CORKSCREW DEMONS as the spirochete shape of syphilis bacteria is not a joke: in the old days, and today too in some quarters, folks thought sexually transmitted diseases were caused by curses, hexes, magic spells, evil witches or angry wives…wow, imagine that.
「Infected short leg in vulva」「rowdy accusation blame」or「orifice」with「loose dripping stink」might also be interpreted as a SNAKE, WORM and is referred to in this manner by various glyphs. The best way to transfer demon corkscrew vermin, bugs, pubic crabs and so on is by「vulva to short leg, loose and dripping contact.」「Vulva with repeatedly bobbing head dripping stench」seems to accurately portray a tool of the trade of many service providers who are themselves incubation hosts for various BUGS and PATHOGENS, as are the inner workings of a snake-like penis (also having a small orifice, normally at the tip) with sexually transmissible infection(s), such as corkscrew demons or dripping gleet drops.
INSECTS can also be dangerous on each end, either as biting or stinging, or both ends. Intestinal parasitic WORMS emerge loose and dripping from the anal orifice. Intestinal helminths infect over a quarter of the world's population today, and in the good ol' days of ancient China, that proportion was likely much greater.
「Two-sided short leg」may also apply here, since male snakes do have「two-sided」hemipenes: a male snake possesses forked hemipenes (resembles the shape of its tongue), that are normally held inside the body with spurs and barbs that attach to the inside walls of the female's cloaca, the female snake's equivalent to a vagina. Hemipenes are half-open penises, with semen troughs exposed, hence always「loose and dripping on both sides」when extended.
Snakes and other reptiles have「branching, skilled glans」(as depicted by the glyph 岐):
「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 [for a total of four…see 四]).」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemipenis 2014-06-23 ]
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: lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures; person with a particular undesirable characteristic
Japanese: insect, gall, selfish, asking too much, to become verminous, to be infested with insects, to begin to keep bad company, to have a lover
Unihan extended: insects, worms
EDRDG: insect; bug; temper
Used within names (nanori)
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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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 437 entries
Chinese usage: 130 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 297 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 8 entries
- Glyph.00181
- Strokes: 06
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