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The image of a quill reaming one's long pig snout with the patient standing up to the pain and not fleeing enables the medical practitioner to provide a PROGNOSIS, foretelling the future need for continued bougie-reaming sessions or DIVINATION, the various services of knowing the will of the gods (religion) for a patient, prostitution, and doctoring offered by shamans. Also derives from these elements as「obese piggish concubine/ service provider with pig nose in need of bougie reaming」that can describe the shaman as witch and doctor providing medical services with a long quill-like object or an actual porcupine quill, and, to the worker not shirking her DIVINATION duties even though a client is obviously diseased, rolling a no-longer-integrated foot into the necessary shape and NOT FLEEING FROM AN ATTACKER, remaining UNINHIBITED and FEARLESS knowing that cleansing salts are available afterward. Perhaps the porcupine received its English name from the use of its quills as bougie reamers of pig snouts in China, piggish meat mingled with needles, erectile bristles.
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: to foretell the future using the trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经
Unihan extended: a hog; a hedgehog; a porcupine
EDRDG: divination
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
Chinese usage: 3 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 12 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 7 entries
- Glyph.02456
- Strokes: 09
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