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「Vast, deep and horizontal」describes an underground cave network, more often than not with internal caverns filled to the top of the rock ceiling or nearly so with 'cave fill' comprised of silt, cobbles, marl, clay and finely crushed rock, a filled orifice (田) as it were, yet how could a cavern have possibly filled to the very top of the rock ceiling? there are many such sites, more than open caves…if the fill were carried in by huge water flows and erosion, where is the water's exit path?「Same, widened vagina」(also a 'filled orifice') may have been used in addition for its shape of a「wide hole inside」the Earth's surface, or as a referent to the original birth and dwelling places of humanoids in caves and where human thoughts tend to dwell, i.e., vaginas. Contrary to past and popular assumptions, nearly all caves were likely not formed as a result of erosion from underground springs or「water flows」within rock, but instead were formed while the entire surface of the planet was covered with water and under much higher pressure than today, long prior to the appearance of any land or continents, by crushing a strata of the crust that was「all alike, the same」horizontally and not due to water/rock erosion from rushing waters such as those that carved the Grand Canyon (how did the rushing water start to rush before there was an opening in the rock? and why does that not occur anywhere within caves today? if the water were rushing so hard through the cave, why is there any cave fill remaining at all? why aren't cave walls straight and smooth with striations? cave fill does not wash into a cave from the surface. And so on):「The processes generally cited in theories of cavern formation are corrosion [erosion by abrasive action] and solution. Neither of these processes adequately explains the presence of cave fill in many caves. A new concept in cavern formation involves a possible dis-integration process due to release of former high pressure on sediments that were being elevated from depths in which they were formed. This process can account for the relationship of cavern plans to joint systems, the generally horizontal development of caves [「vast, deep and horizontal」glyph elements], and other characteristics besides accounting for the formation of cave fill in place. This avoids the problem of explaining how cave fill can be transported into caves from outside. Application of the ory of dis-integration to problems of origin of dome pits in caves is discussed, and the possibility of this explanation of the formation of caves in non-carbonate rocks is suggested.」
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Note the original glyph used「rock, stone」instead of「flow」to mean a hole in the stone as a CAVE, GROTTO, DEN.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)
Japanese EDRDG: den, cave, excavation
Unihan extended: cave, grotto; ravine; hole
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: 41 entries
Chinese usage: 94 entries
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硐Similar glyphs with related meanings: 42 entries
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- Strokes: 09
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