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「Flow again and again」over water depicts no waves in a HARBOR, perhaps a ferry crossing. HAVEN meaning SAFE HARBOR is also a reference to heaven and the gods, and a SAFE HARBOR is one that can be put into anytime without fear of attack from pirates, weather, or more to the point—a PORT with no sexually transmitted diseases, which was the purpose behind the laws regulating the sex trades (see 律). UBIQUITOUS and ENDLESS is a candid statement that everyone is doing these「same motions again, and again, etc., flowing while erect」or refers to the extent of the infectious problem and that once cured, anyone can easily become re-infected, back and forth like a FERRY boat ride.
「Flowing, and then same motions again, and again, etc.」As perhaps the calm between sessions of FLOW OF BODILY FLUIDS:
「Refractory period—Most men experience a refractory period immediately following an orgasm, during which time they are unable to achieve another erection, and a longer period again before they are capable of achieving another ejaculation. During this time a male feels a deep and often pleasurable sense of relaxation, usually felt in the groin and thighs.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejaculation 2012-08-03 ] Ubiquitous and endless for the propagation of any species, the consequences, the effect is caused by a flow of fluids.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: saliva; sweat; a ferry crossing; a ford (river crossing); abbr. for Tianjin 天津
Japanese EDRDG: haven, port, harbor, ferry
Unihan extended: ferry; saliva; ford
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: 68 entries
Chinese usage: 92 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 39 entries
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- Strokes: 09
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