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「At home, surrounded with sexually transmitted disease on glans」: tip and foreskin of a penis in old glyphs was drawn the same as「emerge」or「mountain」due to frequenting the raucous bawdy houses or the cave o' wonders. Such a condition might cause a man to keep his pants TIGHTLY SEALED and behave STEALTHILY, SECRETLY, SURREPTITIOUSLY. CLOSELY PACKED, DENSE likely refers to the bandages and dressings or poultices applied in the attempt to staunch the blood flow after surgeries and prevent purulent gleet stains from appearing along with those nasty telltale odors when guests have been invited for supper. Conversely,「healthy and quiet with glans」is one that remains TIGHTLY SEALED and behaves STEALTHILY, SECRETLY, CLOSELY PACKED by keeping that organ away from troubled spots, i.e., the diseased organs of others in dis-ease, not at ease. Interestingly, both interpretations describe the same conditions surrounding male genitals, albeit for entirely different reasons.
Alternatively, some suggest that perhaps these elements are「roofed house necessary up in the mountains」for living secretly, away from everyone else, and no one knowing where you are, and for this house location to remain concealed, it must be located in a very dense forest so that it cannot easily be spotted from any direction before the days of helicopters, or satellite imagery.
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: secret; confidential; close; thick; dense; name of an ancient state
Japanese: density, thickness, secrecy, minute, fine, secret, private, surreptitious, quiet, still
Unihan extended: dense, thick, close; intimate
EDRDG: secrecy; density (pop); minuteness; carefulness
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: 199 entries
Chinese usage: 249 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 2 entries
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