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Perhaps the fruits of a「tree」that resemble the plump, enlarged, ripe-looking and fuzzy「breasts of a mother lying in her side and nursing」her baby, to mean APRICOTS. Note that apricots, like peaches and breasts, have a fuzzy skin: not plums actually (see李), although possibly the source of the English 'plum job' as a misnomer.
Japanese fonts display「lying prone with mother」using the same strokes and shape as「lying prone do not, be not」and while this association nearly always applies to one's mother, there are a few times when it does not, such as when you were an infant and nursing.
Japanese hemlock conifers, or tsuga pines, are not toxic as is hemlock, but seem to exude a similar odor when crushed. Its branches often are tipped with small, spherical pinecones that resemble a penile glans in a foreskin sheath.
The Chinese stroke pattern that draws two nipples is one stroke count higher than in Japanese. And as was mentioned, another Chinese variant is 坆,「plum, the grave, tomb」as「feces or rod in flesh seam, incited prostrate and whacking.」
Perhaps「woody head laterally with mother」as the portion of a child's fuzzy penis that looks exactly like Japanese apricots, or umeboshi:「In Japan, it is not uncommon for mothers to sexually stimulate their children to soothe them so they will sleep. There have been stories in the press of mother-son incest arising from the strong nature of this relationship in Japan and the important maternal role of ensuring the son succeeds at school. According to Hideo Tokuoka, 'When Americans think of incest, they think of fathers and daughters. In Japan one thinks of mothers and sons' due to the extensive media coverage of mother-son incest there.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest 2012-08-21 ]
When in an unaroused state, such as when with one's mother hopefully, the LOWEST point of a woody, or most woodies anyway, resembles an apricot or plum. Certainly the lowest portion of a tree is not the fruit thereon, generally.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: plum; plum flower; Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
Japanese EDRDG: plum
Unihan extended: plums; prunes
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.
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Japanese vocabulary: 86 entries
Chinese usage: 100 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 13 entries
- Glyph.04470
- Strokes: 11 ~ 10
- jlpt-N2 grade_04
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