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年
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Meanings of elements
PROSTRATE with INVERTED FOOT
…or: PROSTRATE with ROD HEAD DOWN and PULLED OUT OF THE NORMAL SHAPE
…or: PROSTRATE with FOOT DISINTEGRATING
…or: HEAD on ROD with INVERTED FOOT, IMPEDED
The New YEAR.「Person prostrate」and「feet up」to mean someone taking it easy during the New Year celebration by sitting with feet up, or, passed out unconscious from drunkenness. New Year celebrations and observances are traditionally the peak of festivities in Asia, and clearly mark and denote each passing YEAR. Elements may well also be (in the order of the strokes as drawn in Japan)「prostrate and pulling, pulled out of the normal shape (ユ drawn reversed), one's rod」that also might describe lifelong activities conducted year after year after year, or during the New Year celebration.
Old glyph depicted counting one's AGE in YEARS, perhaps by how many harvests the person had seen, or, by how many drunken New Year celebrations had been enjoyed, using elements of「standing grain, seeds at stalk tip, gleetful discharge」with「thousand times」(秊…recall that not many grain crops are grown in the dead of winter, though).
Needless to point out of course is that in China「prone person twisting a mattock」or「prone person」during「foot dis-integrating procedures」or「prostrate with no-longer-integrated feet」or「head down and pulling, pulled out of the normal shape (ユ drawn reversed)」signaled the New Year and perhaps that a daughter's age was sufficient to begin training:「Binding usually started during the winter months since the feet were more likely to be numb.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
And what better way was there to celebrate the Chinese New Year than by harvesting some fresh meat for future sale as a sex slave after mauling one of your daughters for life?
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary…, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…. Women, their families, and [a husband] 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. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: year
Japanese EDRDG: year, counter for years
Unihan extended: year; new-years; person's age

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? (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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