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「Training wings and standing」as a fledgling chick preparing to fly off repeatedly after short rest periods, or, trying again tomorrow, or, simply to stand upon as set of newly no-longer-integrated and bound feet as「concubine in training with swelling, palming and spurting」:「Bound feet…became a prerequisite for finding a husband, as well as an avenue for poorer women to marry into money. Women, their families, and their husbands took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「Concubine, service provider in training with swelled erection」indicates the same action will FOLLOW DURING THE NEXT DAY. Also refers to the NEXT TIME BLOCK IN SEQUENCE as the present, such as used by the shaman for billing purposes, but today may refer to a time period much longer than a client session, such as the next day, next week, next month, next year, etc.
As for what might occur the NEXT MORNING AT DAYBREAK:「Rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep) is a normal stage of sleep characterized by the rapid and random movement of the eyes. …REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies 20–25% of total sleep, about 90–120 minutes of a night's sleep. REM sleep is considered the lightest stage of sleep, and normally occurs close to morning. …Subjects' vividly recalled dreams mostly occur during REM sleep. …Erections of the penis (nocturnal penile tumescence or NPT) normally accompany REM sleep. …In females, erection of the clitoris (nocturnal clitoral tumescence or NCT) causes enlargement, with accompanying vaginal blood flow and transudation (i.e., lubrication). During a normal night of sleep the penis and clitoris may be erect for a total time of from one hour to as long as three and a half hours during REM.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_eye_movement_sleep 2013-06-09, emphasis ours ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: bright; tomorrow
Japanese EDRDG: the following, next
Unihan extended: bright; daybreak, dawn; the next day
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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 22 entries
Chinese usage: 3 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 19 entries
- Glyph.04867
- Strokes: 11
- jlpt-N3 grade_06
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