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Natural pearls are seldom spherical, appearing「uncultured.」「Cultured pearls」refers to pearls not grown naturally, but instead after implanting a starter 'spherical seed' into an oyster with no other sand or grit.
A pennant was used first as a signal flag by ships and sailing vessels, with a referent to a 'pendant' having an elongated triangular shape, perhaps appearing to be「loose and dripping」as might a flaccid head of long, dangling wet hair after diving for pearls, not a task many cultured long-haired princesses would undertake.
Note that the ancient Chinese were apparently rather blunt and frank when creating these glyphs, and the right element is linked also to「stillborn births」for obvious reasons. Investigating why「you, person of stillborn birth」also means「pearl-like bubbles surrounding a head as might a crown」remains for the reader to attempt, yet before doing so, please be advised that doing so is not advised (we did that…can't write it up).
「Throughout much of recorded history, a natural pearl necklace comprised of matched spheres was a treasure of almost incomparable value, in fact the most expensive jewelry in the world. …Before the creation of cultured pearls in the early 1900s, natural pearls were so rare and expensive that they were reserved almost exclusively for the noble and very rich. A jewelry item that today's working women might take for granted, a 16-inch strand of perhaps 50 pearls, often costs between $500 and $5,000. At the height of the Roman Empire, when pearl fever reached its peak, the historian Suetonius wrote that the Roman general Vitellius financed an entire military campaign by selling just one of his mother's pearl earrings.」
[ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/history-pearls/ 2022-01-21 ] stuffing long strings of pearls into an orifice (one without teeth) and then pulling out the string slowly while in contact with the clitoris is a distinct possibility for a「method of loose dripping copulation」as an exercise performed by bored and horny harem concubines for personal pleasure (after their old lord's manhood had died, or, when scheduled late in the concubine rotation), a practice rumored still to be viewable today via the Internet as is most anything else imaginable.
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)
Unihan extended: fringes of pearls on crowns; a pennant
EDRDG: fringes of pearls on crowns; pennant
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.
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