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to bu ・ to ba su ・ ~to ba su
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「By instinct, chickens want to roost ('go to bed') in the highest point available, and be gathered together in a group for protection and warmth while they sleep. Your chickens will be happier animals if you play to their instincts when you are designing their living space. If you were to place multiple roosts inside your coop with some higher than others, they may fight to get the highest ('best') spots: to avoid this, you keep the roost at all the same level. …A chicken roost is a very simple board…or a wooden clothes rod like you would put in a closet, or even a thick tree branch that is about [2-3 inches in diameter].」
[ https://www.pet-chicken.com/why-chickens-need-a-roost/ 2014-09-29 ]
Regardless of that previous explanation,「flying with repeated erection screwing and thrusting forward with small sitting person」also would eventually result in SCATTERING droplets, LAUNCHING a barrage, and in dynastic China would describe the foot or feet of a service provider that appear to HOP, SKIP, JUMP, LEAP, WAVE IN THE AIR, or be SENT FLYING by clients. It is perhaps no coincidence this glyph uses elements that appear to be「two no-longer-integrated feet」(羽) that have been turned inside out ('everted') after use by「repeated bobbing head of erection screwing, array of erect rods bobbing」(升). Significantly, literal bird wings do not function as flight instruments when everted, so the glyph seems to indicate no-longer-integrated feet after the flight of a client, or two. In fact, everting a bird's wings has the tendency to break the bones…
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to fly
Japanese EDRDG: fly, skip (pages), scatter
Unihan extended: fly; go quickly; dart; high
Used within names (nanori)
あす ・ とび
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: 318 entries
Chinese usage: 151 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 2 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 19 entries
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- Strokes: 09
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