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EMERGING SHAFTS, STALKS of ENCLOSED WOODY with DRIPPING TIP
…or: GREEN SHAFTS and REPEATED HEAD BOBBING UP AND DOWN CONTINUOUSLY with TROUBLED WORRIED AND EMBARRASSED, BESIEGED UNDER ATTACK, DISTRESSED, STRANDED, DESTITUTE, TRAPPED AND SURROUNDED, HARD-PRESSED WITH MEDICAL COMPRESS, TO BECOME A STUMP, NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO
…or: GREEN SHAFTS and PHALLIC-SHAPE ACCUMULATION OF SEED
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS, STALKS and WOODY ORIFICE with TIP DRIPPING GONORRHEA
「Emerging shafts of woody with dripping tip」that has been「enclosed」: the allusion is clearly to keeping one's「emerging shaft」the「seed tipped stalk」(when dripping)「enclosed, imprisoned」and surrounded by a POULTICE of「grain」as the place where BACTERIA, GERMS, VIRUSES, FUNGI (mushrooms are fungi), MOLD and other schmutz gleet or smegma will accumulate within the prepuce and the accompanying risks, particularly to other women or men who subsequently become a sexual partner. Grains such as flax, barley, oats, rice, rye, and millet have been used since antiquity as components of a poultice, applied to infections for the purpose of drawing out the pus. Nevertheless, with all the shade and somewhat humid and damp conditions inside a grain enclosure, it is no wonder that BACTERIA, GERMS, VIRUSES, FUNGI, MOLD would grow in the darkness. The use of the「plant, emerging shafts」element perhaps signifies something that spreads and grows, and may not suggest a strict biological classification here since mold, fungi, and bacteria are not classified (any longer) as「plants.」…but may be found on various shafts.
While probably unnecessary to point out, the English term「germ」is the root of 'to germinate,' and means 'bud, seed, offshoot, sprouting, emerging shaft.'

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: mushroom; pathogenic microorganism; bacteria; fungus; mold
Japanese EDRDG: germ, fungus, bacteria
Unihan extended: mushroom; germ, microbe

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? (More...) 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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Chinese usage: 157 entries


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