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Also means BENDING AND TWISTING, TURNING in a highly flexible manner, with the left element meaning「evening meat」with a「no-longer-integrated foot wrapper」bent around a「penile appendage.」…although, there was no real time limits on these activities in dynastic China. Clearly, the meat of a foot with all the tarsal bones crushed will bend, turn, twist and can be applied in most any manner desired to a penis:「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
Means YIELDING AND BECOMING OBLIGING when taken from behind, or, using no-longer-integrated feet as intended, a reference to all kinds of sex,「no holds barred.」…see the Used-In glyphs. Associated meanings of「being quite obliging」as extraordinarily compliant, permitting access to otherwise restricted areas, and holding a「resentful grudge」(for dis-integrating feet, or being anally raped, actions not soon forgotten). Scholars say this glyph means to roll over when asleep, but a more accurate rendition might be「to be rolled, to roll flesh of a no-longer-integrated foot around a woody.」Note that male mandarin ducks are not known for copulating while rolling over when asleep (that duck glyph uses this element), but they do have exceptional「coiled penis meat」and large flaps of skin between the bone segments of their two feet.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to turn over when asleep
Unihan extended: to turn over when asleep
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
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 34 entries
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戼- Glyph.00429
- Strokes: 05
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