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Perhaps referring to a SPECIAL bull offered as a sacrifice using a squeezing grip to the gods for unfathomable reasons, and while there is historical support for that idea, slaughtering the really special bulls and not using them as studs was just plain stupid, and likely not performed often when those SPECIAL bulls were scant. Simply assume that any cattle within a temple must be SPECIAL for some reason:「Animal sacrifice, however, continued as an important imperial ritual until the collapse of imperial China in 1911…. We also learn that oxen were not used to plough the fields nor to pull carts, but as sacrificial domestic animals, sources of food, and symbols of property, wealth, and power….」
[ https://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1401/1401plutschow/ 2011-03-08 ]
We also know about the shaman and her bevy of crippled meat used for servicing studs, females who were reduced to being simply sacrificial animals, but most linguistic sources have tried to rewrite that history by changing elements and the manner in which these glyphs are drawn, and by omitting the meanings associated with the more inflammatory glyphs. Nevertheless, elements variously as「prostrated, head screwing, repeated streaming talent for squeezing with shit, feces」also contains a bit of poetic symbolism that still applies.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very
Japanese EDRDG: special
Unihan extended: special, unique, distinguished
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: 289 entries
Chinese usage: 526 entries
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