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Gothic:
桑
桑

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ソウ
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くわ
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Meanings of elements
OBEDIENT, UNDER CONTROL, many CROTCHES UNITED and FILLED COMPLETELY, ROTATE, TWISTING, TURNING and EMIT DOWNWARD
…or: OBEDIENT CROTCHES AGAIN AND AGAIN within TREE, WOODY or WAITING WHILE PASSING TIME WITHOUT ANXIETY, HEMP, CANNABIS
「Tree under control」is perhaps the MULBERRY in which silk caterpillars were cultivated with strict control.「Many crotches」with「rotation emit down」some suggest as depicting slaves of a wealthy lord gathering silk caterpillar cocoons. For the lower elements, some fonts use「tree」while others use「hemp」or「screwing emissions.」It was important to not damage the fibers while gathering cocoons, so perhaps many slave crotches were perched upon tree branch crotches, sitting to enable carefully and patiently removing each individual cocoon.
Technically, the mulberry is a tree, but note that untended mulberry plants grow with densely-packed and closely-spaced branches beginning at nearly ground level, and so are often referred to by the misnomer of 'mulberry bush.' Silk-producing caterpillars especially enjoy ingesting MULBERRY leaves, appearing as mottled flecks of white all over the wood.
Eating ripe mulberries while picking them from the branches often causes long reddish-purple lines of juice to run down one's hands and forearms in stripes (see 条), especially as the picker loses concentration and begins to greedily grasp for more and more of the juicy, fleshy berries without exercising the necessary care and caution (桑!). Mulberry juice stains deeply. The skin of mulberry fruit is easily burst, and each plump berry contains many seeds.
It would seem the sages intentionally designed the lower elements to resemble both「tree」and「hemp」since mulberry trees and hemp were related in ancient China as sources of materials for clothing, so much so that one old nickname for China was the「land of mulberry and hemp」:「The mulberry plant was venerated because it was the food upon which silkworms fed, and silk was one of China's most important products. But silk was very expensive and only the very wealthy could afford silken fabric. For the vast millions of less fortunate [means], cheaper material had to be found. Such material was typically hemp.」
[ https://druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/first12000/1.htm 2012-08-08 ]
「Many crotches」being covered or wrapped with loincloths and/or poultices formed from these materials. Hemp and the mulberry tree were used to manufacture both cloth and paper, at first used in China to wrap, bind, and wipe「many crotches」of various sorts, those in feet and those in loins.
Leaves of the PAPER MULBERRY (a「tree with anal activity, toilet」榕) have been used to wipe and clean human and other animal anal orifices since before the beginning:「The tree, with extra-large leaves, soft on one side, rough on the other, is also a common source of woodland toilet paper.」
[ https://www.eattheweeds.com/broussonetia-papyrifera-paper-chase-2/ 2014-12-16 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: mulberry tree
Japanese EDRDG: mulberry
Unihan extended: mulberry tree

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? (More...) 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.



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Chinese usage: 62 entries


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