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「Insect like an adult male human being」represents the WATER BEETLE perhaps because water beetles spend much of their lives hibernating underground in soil as might occur when a human is residing in a pit hole home, or because water beetles can move appendages back and forth with great rapidity (to move fluids whilst swimming in the case of the insect, to move fluids eventually with repeated wrist actions in the case of a human male), or because water beetles are incestuous cannibals (really), or because water beetles will attack and attempt to eat most any other animal, or because water beetles continually dive into fluids, and so on.「Insect with array of widely spread limbs」also simply describes the WATER BEETLE.
See the following glyphs, all of which equate money and wealth with sex and fleshpots (not seashells): 貝, goal of seeing emissions. 金, person downward thrusting with spurts. 円, glans within spread legs. 泉, open-mouthed tonguing white streams.
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: (water-beetle); money
Unihan extended: a kind of water-beetle cash, then dollars and money generally
EDRDG: kind of water-beetle cash; then dollars and money generally
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
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 3 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 22 entries
- Glyph.04306
- Strokes: 10
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