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Perhaps「deftly moving in all directions」「rolled」「vertical」from「crotch」meaning SKINNED, SKIN. The process of SKINNING most animal carcasses begins by cutting the anus wider between the hind legs, detaching the hide from the legs and tail (if any), tying the hind feet and stringing up the carcass, and then rolling down the skin (or pulling the meat and bones out, for small critters) through the animal's own cut open and enlarged bunghole…strung「straight up and then rolled top to bottom through crotch.」Any trapper can tell you that the hide does indeed tend to roll up naturally as it is PEELED and removed, finally attached only to the animal's front paws, horns (if any), nose and lips.
Old form included「skill, craft, work」and「stretched skin」with「animal carcass」the results after peeling off the hide. When you have a choice of seasons, early winter is the best time to hunt, trap, or skin critters, since the furs are thickest, the meat is fattest, and the carcass stands the best chance of keeping longer during the era when walk-in freezers were scarce, an important concern all the days prior to refrigeration and electricity.
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: leather; skin; fur; pico- (one trillionth); naughty
Japanese: skin, hide, pelt, fur, rind, peel, husk, bark, shell, sheath, wrapping, mask, seeming, leather strap, thong, leash, to skin, to peel
Unihan extended: skin, hide, fur, feather; outer
EDRDG: pelt; skin; hide; leather; skin radical (no. 107)
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 268 entries
Chinese usage: 342 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 37 entries
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