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Or,「marker above the action of excreting」suggests how sellers if possible will treat most folks in a MARKET, and that anywhere in a CITY one is likely to be literally「shat upon from above」by pigeons or figuratively by the governing powers that be…perhaps literally, too, in the old days, since waste elimination from urban areas has always been a problem (the English simply tossed their feces out of windows into the street below…imagine that). Therefore,「emphasis on excreting」suggests not dumping indiscriminately, or at least an enjoinder to mind one's step since as Forrest Gump explained,「[sh]it happens」so curb your self.
Marker above「rod down between spread legs」is a MARKET in a CITY selling sex slaves as fresh meat with shoppers inspecting the merchandise. Today we think of markets, or super-markets, as places to purchase food, but centuries ago each family formerly produced most all of its own food and did not buy it in a market (food spoils easily on hot days without refrigeration, canning, pickling, smoking, drying or salting, especially while returning home on foot or via horse and buggy).
Scholars suggest that early MARKETS likely were places with sellers「palm down」holding「cloth」for trade, and that markets evolved larger and larger, finally becoming CITIES. Certainly a nice explanation, but most likely the first commodities bought, sold and traded were not textiles or manufactured clothing…after all, mechanized looms were not invented until 1678 A.D., and not used for manufacturing until approximately 1800 A.D. …Before that time, folks made their own clothing, along with providing their own food.
For a very long time the commodities sold in a MARKET, and later in the first CITIES, were sexual activities, and slaves. Elements as「palm down on head in loincloth」may have indicated the desire to suppress excitement whilst strolling about window shopping…to be sure, the sellers employed a slew of techniques to pique buyer interest, just as they do today.
To fetch the highest return on investment, displays were lurid and enticing, seductive and scintillating, resembling a 'no rules, just right' sort of 'anything goes, everyone comes' carnival atmosphere ('carnival' means 'meat elevated, displayed').
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
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Note that the really young girls (not the elder sisters, 姉 as 'marketable female') were not yet sold as slaves or prostitutes until fully trained in order to fetch the highest possible price, and since their small bodily orifices were still useful at home to the master, trainers, father, uncles, and brothers, not being fully stretched from overuse yet or from giving birth (see related glyphs).
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: market; city
Japanese EDRDG: market, city, town
Unihan extended: market, fair; city, town; trade
Used within names (nanori)
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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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