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「Person and array within anus」describes the COLON, LARGE INTESTINE having one function as a STORAGE SITE of ACCUMULATED feces prior to defecation, bowel movements that DISCHARGE AT ONCE, caused by peristaltic muscular squeezing actions of the colon walls.
「Person in front aligned」with「buttocks crack orifice」or「person to trust to do, place confidence in (㐆)」or「person in front with erection in tonguing mouth and orifice」all as references to a place that is trusted for one's assets, a STORAGE PLACE FOR SEEDS of some sort, an ACCUMULATION related to one's JEWELS and/or SEEDS, or buried WITHIN SOIL as an underground cellar. Usage also indicate something that will occur SUDDENLY, or cause WORRIED AGITATION, HASTINESS from bursting under pressure. Not surprisingly, glyph contains the left half of the「gateway」element (門) that seems to be merged with「person's doorway, buttocks crack orifice」(启), indicating the short-term rental of a service provider and/or any「person's gateway orifice.」
As an element within glyphs, indicates infected wounds, scarring, cysts, sickly paleness, skin ulceration, boils, and so on as symptoms of an unhealthy lifestyle, swollen areas of the body ready to burst and discharge fluids under pressure, such as pox pustules or accumulated gleet, oceans of thick green fluids, and visits to brothels.
Center element may be「buttocks, genitals」with an internal array or line, or「erection with bougie inserted」perhaps to indicate it is very difficult to open and release the contents, a place where something accumulates and is STORED prior to removal, a STORAGE AREA of concealed, secret, hidden items or material associated with jewels, seeds, soil, or all three—referring to stored fat, pus, tumors, or whatever within the skin and flesh of a human being's body. SUDDENNESS refers to the cyst, boil, pimple or infection SUDDENLY bursting, discharging and spewing the contents. Possibly depicting a「person in front」(a doctor, guards, someone trusted) so that the knowledge of what is inside remains tightly sealed, confidential.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: barn; granary; storehouse; cabin; hold (in ship)
Japanese EDRDG: godown, warehouse, storehouse, cellar, treasury
Unihan extended: granary; berth; sea
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: 58 entries
Chinese usage: 37 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 16 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 26 entries
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- Strokes: 10
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