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Snakes and other reptiles have「branching, skilled glans」(岐) and concubines in China had two no-longer-integrated feet that were wrapped around a rod and then squeezed in a constricting manner (however, note that constricting snakes are not generally venomous). Comparison of「vulva, rod within orifice, both sides」「loose and dripping, snake, larva, worm, insect」「it, that other thing, out-of-reach sitting person with no-longer-integrated feet」with a VENOMOUS SNAKE, VIPER, ASP as referring to both the client(s) and the service provider is apparent:「A hemipenis (plural hemipenes) is one of a pair of intromittent organs of male squamates (snakes, lizards and worm lizards). Hemipenes are usually held inverted, within the body, and are everted for reproduction via erectile tissue, much like that in the human penis. Only one is used at a time, and evidence indicates males alternate use between copulations as a behavioral means of increasing sperm transfer when the interval between copulations is relatively brief. The hemipenis itself has a variety of shapes, depending on species. Often, the hemipenis bears spines or hooks, in order to anchor the male within the female. Some species even have forked hemipenes (each hemipenis has two tips).」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemipenis 2014-06-23 ]
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: snake; serpent
Japanese: snake, serpent, large snake, false strawberry, mock strawberry
Unihan extended: snake
EDRDG: snake; serpent; hard drinker
Used within names (nanori)
あぶ ・ み
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: 106 entries
Chinese usage: 88 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 7 entries
- Glyph.04699
- Strokes: 11
- jlpt-N2 grade_08
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