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Top element as reamer or sword describes as an ancient episiotomy, a surgical incision of the perineum to enlarge the vagina and so facilitate delivery during childbirth, or, as a symphysiotomy (cutting the pubic bone in half, splitting the vulva into「two sides」):「Before the Caesarean section technique was available, if labor failed to progress because the head of the fetus was too large, the mother's symphysis pubis was cut and the skull of the fetus was crushed.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic_symphysis 2012-07-22 ]
Likely, the master or husband was required to PERMIT this procedure and EXCUSE the surgeon if anyone died.
As perhaps the moment of parturition of a very difficult birth and providing some additional aid to deliver the infant depicts someone else saving one or both of the mother and infant during a difficult birth, to mean ESCAPE DEATH. Simply living through the experience might mean「escape from trouble.」Childbirth was the leading cause of death among women, and still is in many places. After a very difficult birth (or any birth, for that matter), the mother is no longer pregnant and RELIEVED OF A BURDEN (see related glyph 壬 as「pregnant」that also means「burdened」).
The norm in old Chinese brothels was not to copulate into the vagina, but rather use no-longer-integrated feet, the anus, mouth, breasts, or what have you…to PERMIT spurting semen while copulating into a vagina leads to CHILDBIRTH, and the spread of disease, both conditions that placed valued revenue-raising assets out-of-service and not in the best interests of the shaman proprietress.
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External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Japanese EDRDG: excuse, dismissal
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: 141 entries
Chinese usage: 89 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 2 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 15 entries
- Glyph.02419
- Strokes: 08 ~ 07
- grade_08
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