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Fluids such as lymph. Weep means to exude drops of a fluid, such as when crying tears, but not only then.「Flow from loose and dripping meat」are FLUIDS WEEPING from a wound or pore that GLISTENS and SHINES may also cause crying tears as a person realizes that the infection has worsened. Literally,「flow covering loose and dripping meat」that WEEPS from a wound and later forms a scab, a flow difficult to comprehend, mysterious.
Perhaps refers to CLEANING A FESTERING WOUND OR INJURY, CURING A FAILING OR DEFECT which you have been unable to correct by yourself with other means. By allowing the maggots to GORGE UPON the putrid flesh the wound can begin to heal (see replacement glyph 涓,「flowing with larvae」):
「Maggot therapy is also known as maggot debridement therapy (MDT)…It is a type of biotherapy involving the introduction of live, disinfected maggots (fly larvae) into the non-healing skin and soft tissue wound(s) of a human or animal for the purpose of cleaning out the necrotic (dead) tissue within a wound (debridement) and disinfection. …Written records have documented that maggots have been used since antiquity as a wound treatment. …Maggots clean up the already dead tissue thus preventing further infection spread. …In January 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted permission to produce and market maggots for use in humans…. The use of maggots to clean dead tissue from animal wounds is part of folk medicine in many parts of the world. …Maggots are contained in a cage-like dressing over the wound for two days. The maggots may be allowed to move freely within that cage, with the wound floor acting as the bottom of the cage. Or the maggots may be contained within a sealed pouch, placed on top of the wound. The dressing must be kept air permeable because maggots require oxygen to live. When maggots are satiated, they become substantially larger and seek to leave the site of a wound. Multiple two-day courses of maggot therapy may be administered depending on the severity of the non-healing wound.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy 2013-01-22 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Unihan extended: (non-classical form of 涓) a brook, the smallest drop of water, to expel evil influences; to eliminate; rid off, to clean up, to select, a tributary (or a river), the flowing of a spring, (interchangeable 泫) to glisten; to sparkle, to weep
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.
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