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If indeed the given external definitions refer to silk threads moments after having been spun onto the inner walls of soft cocoon encasements of slippery meat in the process of metamorphosis, the closest similarity could easily be to what forms constantly within a groin poultice of a gonorrhea patient. Caterpillars form cocoons from a single fiber of silk that is very fine but long, perhaps 1,000 meters in length and twisted into 300,000 figure-eight shapes over a period of about three days, during which the animal does not rest and continuously emits fluids from its spinneret. All this clearly as a comparison to a penile meatus with gleet discharges into batting, or, one's underwear if any:「threads with prick.」Be sure to also see 綃 (「penile emissions with rod meat spurting up」) that also means RAW SILK in Chinese.
Alternatively, as the favorite food of silk-producing caterpillars, mulberry trees grow low to the ground with drooping branches when not tended from a young age, so low that mulberry trees are sometimes referred to using the misnomer 'mulberry bushes' in English. Some say these elements are「droopy」(notwithstanding the shape of the upper element lacks any drooping) with「silk threads」referring to the initial stage of the process of producing silk, meaning the MOST BASIC, ELEMENTAL, NATURAL STATE, LEAST FINE and also UNCHANGED, UNADULTERATED, ORIGIN, FOUNDATION, PRIME, in RAWEST FORM, the BASIC PRINCIPLE. Unfortunately, untreated, unprocessed cocoons cannot be used as silk, and are not 'raw silk':「…[Initially, harvested silk] is quite a gummy, sticky substance, so before separating the filaments the cocoons must be softened by immersion in hot water to loosen the gum. Raw silk is typically a short fiber silk recycled from spinning silk. In the production of mulberry silk only a certain middle section of the cocoon can be unreeled for spinning [into fine silk]. The waste silk is the [raw silk] and it has a smooth feel with some bumps and a low luster. [Raw silk] taken directly from the filature is too fine to be woven. Before it is woven into fabric, it goes through a series of operations which conditions [it] for the loom. They do this by hand-reeling the threads onto a wooden spindle to produce a uniform strand of raw silk. [Raw silk] is typically a short fiber silk recycled from spinning silk and has a strong odor [it stinks] due to impurities in the yarn.」
[ link now-dead was www.thaisilkmagic.com/What-is-Raw-Silk 2012-12-10 ]
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever
Japanese: plain, unadorned, undecorated, unadulterated, au naturel, mere, poor, exceedingly, white silk, prime, origin, source, base, basis, foundation, root, cause, ingredient, material, original cost, trunk, first section of a waka, handle, grip, most, much, greatly, from the beginning, from the first, all along, originally, of course, udon noodles in broth, face with no make-up, sobriety, skin diving, free diving
Unihan extended: white (silk); plain; vegetarian; formerly; normally
EDRDG: elementary; principle; naked; uncovered
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 555 entries
Chinese usage: 283 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 12 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 35 entries
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- Strokes: 10
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