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GRAIN PLANTS but ONLY ON A TEMPORARY BASIS
…or: SEEDS AT TIP OF STALK with MEAT PILE
…or: GONORRHEA with ARRAY OF MEAT
「Grain plants, but only yours on a temporary basis」depicts the bags of「grain added to」the feudal lord's tax wagons as payment for your LAND TAXES, or more recently SHARECROPPING. ADDED GRAIN PLANTS were needed to pay the rent/tax and still harvest enough to feed the families living on the farm. Taxes were collected and paid in grain (farmers had little or no cash money). Note that all the land was owned by the lord, and farmers LEASED or BORROWED the land to raise crops, with the lord's share being the TAX that was LEVIED, with that grain going to feed the lord and his harem, the「prick, shaft with seeds at its tip」and his「meat pile」among others at the top of the food chain.
「Seeds at prick tip with meat pile on the verge, adding to」and「gonorrhea with temporary meat pile array」also refers to the SHORT-TERM RENTAL or HIRING of service providers by the shaman and the final TAX exacted: a shortened lease on life.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to hire; to rent; to charter; to rent out; to lease out; rent; land tax
Japanese EDRDG: tariff, crop tax, borrowing
Unihan extended: rent, lease; rental; tax

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: 54 entries


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