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KA ・ KE
i e ・ ya ・ u chi
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On the other hand, also may depict being with the「under-roof concubine (匕 so popular in dynastic China)」AT ONE'S HOME, albeit one who may be a bit overweight due to lack of exercise. Glyph could be depicting「piggish at home, deliberately out of reach」as a zaftig concubine who became out of control and cannot move too much any longer, something like Gilbert Grape's morbidly obese mother.
「Under roof, deliberately out of reach」with「swine」: after the Chinese began constructing houses of a structure other than roofed pit holes, the style was to move in the opposite direction somewhat and build the house「in the air」(using many poles) with the entire living area raised off of the ground level (still in use in many areas prone to flooding, such as Southeast Asia). This glyph may literally be depicting a pig living under such an elevated house, being「surrounded from above」and not within the same house as human beings, hopefully「out of reach of the pigs.」Nevertheless, many humans do indeed live with other animals, so this may be depicting the practice of living with prized animals in the HOME, HOUSE, including cats, dogs (宊), swine, rodents, snakes, fish, turtles, large spiders, caimans, and other pet animals that are considered part of the FAMILY as was Arnold Ziffel at Green Acres in Hooterville.
「Calm peaceful preference for not (yet) gushing into no-longer-integrated feet of sitting person」suggests still remaining AT HOME, not (yet) out carousing or cruising for sleek young, slender pussycats being advertised by the shaman.
Conversely, the elements may be「under roof do not with sitting person」suggesting that bringing short-term rentals home to schtup (ejaculation into a birth canal or other attainable orifice) may cause problems with one's legal wife in the HOUSE or other FAMILY members, so instead be sure to go out and visit that type of STORE, SHOP, a SERVICE PROVIDER'S PLACE OF BUSINESS, a place that sold these services and the EXPERT service providers, too, for that matter.
Or again, as「at home do not (make a) sitting person」by dis-integrating the feet of one's own family member daughters.
Perhaps identifying one's HOUSE and FAMILY as「under roof gushing from taut head」that may be from self-induced pleasuring, or, presently being sidelined with a dose of clap…it seems that the possible combinations of these elements are myriad.
Old glyph replacement is「under roof, and deliberately out of reach with dog, canine」as protection for one's pit hole HOME, HOUSE.「Under roof and deliberately out of reach with emphasis on one's own two hands」exemplifies a selfie copulation style similar to that of canids (see related glyphs for details). So, perhaps this glyph may also be read as「at home with hairy animal, one's dog」(宊) that might also apply to a husband in the doghouse.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: see 傢伙; home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian
Japanese EDRDG: house, home, family, professional, expert, performer
Unihan extended: house, home, residence; family
Used within names (nanori)
あり ・ え ・ く ・ つか ・ べ
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.
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Used in glyphs (or, see also): 8 entries
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