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「Cock, a doodle do」is an English nursery rhyme that describes, literally,「aimlessly passing time doing (i.e., doodling, as in「to kill time by diddling」) one's cock.」…think about that a while, and consider how it relates to morning erections and rapid-eye-movement while dreaming. …During the human era when most folks actually had chickens in the yard, most folks knew that cocks copulate at least as often as horses masturbate. Can there be any relationship between cocks and chicks as used in vernacular English? flipping someone the bird? whistling through a pecker? peckerwood? a bird as English slang for a young girl or woman?
Only 3% of bird species have any semblance of a penis or phallus, and perhaps the most common domesticated bird in China is a chicken, hence the term COCK was applied to the male human and his 'penis' due to some obvious similarities:「The rooster has a small phallus that becomes engorged with lymph to form a copulatory organ. The copulatory organ is rudimentary and at the time of mating there is practically no penetration.」
[ https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/natural-mating-and-breeding 2023-05-17 ] So, the male chicken both is and has a cock, albeit a very small one, yet one he is quite proud of…although, if a hen does not cooperate by properly presenting her open cloaca, the cock cannot mate with her (does that sound familiar to anyone?).
The elements are also「stupidity in a container」as it refers to a rooster with just one aim in mind, and figuratively to a man who behaves like a rooster searching for hens, perhaps after imbibing from the wine jar just a bit, or just a bit too much:「A rooster may mate from 10 to 30 or more times per day, depending on the availability of hens and competition from other roosters.」
[ https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/natural-mating-and-breeding 2023-05-17 ]
A WINE JAR that scholars suggest is only partially filled, and that may be the case as with any jar of good wine, but more likely this jar is depicted as containing shōkōshu, which is a type of Chinese wine made from whole grains of rice containing lees that settle over time (the lower portion in this glyph). With a very dark brown color, shōkōshu literally means「beckoning arousal alcohol」(紹興酒), although why exactly is for you to imagine.
(1) 子 rat (children, spermatozoa)
(2) 丑 cattle (herded meat assets, harem)
(3) 寅 tiger (religious dogma, enslavement)
(4) 卯 rabbit (female, reproduction)
(5) 辰 dragon (power sex)
(6) 巳 snake (fornication)
(7) 午 horse (autoeroticism)
(8) 未 sheep (zooerastia)
(9) 申 monkey (deities, anal-centric)
(10) 酉 cock (cognitive processing impairment)
(11) 戌 dog (male, domination)
(12) 亥 swine (humanity in general).
「…many people, unfortunately, feel shame around masturbation, despite the fact that 98% of people will masturbate at some point.」 [ https://www.health.com/mind-body/health-diversity-inclusion/autosexual-meaning 2022-12-13 ]
Without a doubt, the Irish also have knowledge of their own to pass along in these trying times:「Masturbation will not spread coronavirus, especially if you wash your hands (and any sex toys) with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before and after.」Nonetheless and regrettably, unlike in dynastic China, it must be undertaken alone to truly be a preventative countermeasure but still achieve the desired result with some degree of safety.
[ https://www.sexualwellbeing.ie/sexual-health/sex-and-coronavirus/ 2020-03-31 ]
The Dutch, too have the same solution—it seems masturbation has become mainstream in the media the world over due to the coronavirus (it has always been 'the main stream' in reality, albeit covertly for most folks):
「'Don't have sex with your partner if they have been isolated because of (suspected) coronavirus infection,' the RVIM says. 'Sex with yourself or with others at a distance is possible (think of telling erotic stories, masturbating together).'」
[ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/dutch-official-advice-to-single-people-find-a-sex-buddy-for-lockdown-coronavirus 2020-05-16 2020-05-16 ]
Needless to point out perhaps, but Chinese shamans from antiquity hit upon the same solution as a pandemic preventative countermeasure, honed for ultimate client satisfaction by utilizing naked females with no-longer-integrated feet as masturbatory sex buddies available for short-term rental with erotic visualization of live prepubescent female genitalia engaging in autoerotic stimulation herself, as a solution to the same problem facing us now, but in pre-Internet days.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: 10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Cock Rooster
Japanese EDRDG: west, bird, sign of the cock or bird, 5-7PM, tenth sign of Chinese zodiac
Unihan extended: 10th terrestrial branch; a wine vessel
Used within names (nanori)
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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: 21 entries
Chinese usage: 16 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 118 entries
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戼Similar glyphs with related meanings: 12 entries
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