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Fundamentally:「flowing fluids and informed about copulation」as in to WASH, BECOME CLEAN both before, and after, undertaking some action that might cause the transmission of bacteria, pathogens, or 'germs' to another person, or within oneself, such as cleansing one's hands prior to eating with them, or touching food, cleaning anything that will be placed within one's mouth or other orifice lined with mucous membrane.
「Flow」「precede, before, first」also referring to some action that has already occurred (first) and now requires a person to WASH, BECOME CLEAN, a preceding action that necessitates washing to become clean again because of becoming fouled, described by the elements as「fluid flow with head sliding in fecal copulation.」Chinese sages would likely have used the foulest example known to be sure the point was understood fully by all, and a closer examination of the source elements may describe exactly what is in need of washing and why.
「Fluids flowing with copulation withdrawal」that needs no further explanation. Some sources add the meaning INVESTIGATE, related to「coming clean」by confessing all during an interrogation, or, simply performing an inspection whilst washing first.
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter.」
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So wash up after tupping that ewe, too…yep, better to WASH before dozing off. Note that it was unlikely anyone in China, or most anywhere else, cared much about washing prior to depositing fluids with head in night soil copulation, but on the contrary, most would have wanted to at least rinse a bit afterward.
「Emphasis on cold, frozen with dread, congealed nozzle, head copulating in soil」and so on, causing the NEED TO BATHE, WASH, BECOME CLEAN and doing so often, but especially「before and after fluid flows.」
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to wash; to bathe; to develop (photo)
Japanese EDRDG: wash, inquire into, probe
Unihan extended: wash, rinse; clean, purify
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: 161 entries
Chinese usage: 157 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 2 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 48 entries
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