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Perhaps the「plant」that is how a「person」「should be」meaning a lotus plant head, a very large and top-heavy seed pod LOAD on a rather thin stalk that droops over completely at maturity, having seeds contained in a circle of rather large orifices. Lotus plants are symbolic of Buddha, a person who is said to have achieved the highest of「human possibilities」and for whom physical life was a heavy BURDEN at times. Perhaps Siddhārtha Gautama dozed off with his head on his chest (looking like a lotus seed pod?) at frequent intervals due to consuming lotus flowers, and was unaware the blooms naturally contain a high amount of apomorphine, a dopamine agonist, as well as nuciferine, a mild sedative (so, is that how a「person should be」? ).
「Flower, planted, emerging shafts」with「many several, unknown count, how many times, what?!」refers to BEARING A BURDEN ON ONE'S BACK, most likely the original intention being to do so not while standing, but instead while presenting one's backside in the lordosis position and providing a variety of orificial [sic] services to uncountable number of clients each day,「man, person」「male with orifice, array of streams with orifice」and so on. May also refer to the fact that many times a service provider or two, or three, as concubines of wealthy dynastic Chinese masters were carried around as BAGGAGE, CARGO due to their no-longer-integrated feet and delicate condition.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to carry on one's shoulder or back; burden; responsibility; lotus; Holland; the Netherlands; abbr. for 荷蘭|荷兰
Japanese EDRDG: baggage, shoulder-pole load, bear (a burden), shoulder (a gun), load, cargo, freight
Unihan extended: lotus, water lily, holland
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?
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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: 170 entries
Chinese usage: 70 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 30 entries
- Glyph.03764
- Strokes: 10
- jlpt-N3 grade_03
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