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「Array of genitals, buttocks cracks in courtship display」clearly depicts a client-service provider relationship as being FOR HIRE, to EMPLOY the use of, contractual relationship for a short-term rental after making a selection. Upper-left element is「buttocks crack, door.」Right-lower element refers to a「bird displaying its plumage in a courtship display」and while on the ground.
Referring to a species of bird that flaps its wings in a「door-like」manner with STIFF ACTIONS, the QUAIL, that nests on the ground in tall grass and seldom flies, but it must be admitted that quite a few bird species flap their wings a bit stiffly. Not too many bird species nest on the ground, but others do besides the QUAIL, yet elements resembling「bird under door」drawn in the same manner as human pit holes in the ground further identifies the QUAIL.
STIFF ACTION applies to a NEWLY HIRED person who did not yet know how to do the job very well, that is, a person who works as well as a quail flies and keeps his or her head underground as much as possible. Probably also an oblique reference to the NEW HIRE as a cloaca「bird anus」since the multi-purpose aspect of that single organ being used for copulation, oviparity, and excretion may well describe the tasks assigned to and the feelings of a NEWLY-HIRED HUMAN BEING in the EMPLOY of a STIFF (the boss) and always taking it in the ass-end. And, as you probably have guessed by this time, elements as「buttocks crack courtship display」also uniquely identify this glyph with QUAIL. Of course, birds do not have a buttocks crack per se, but do have a cloaca, and among all birds it seems that only「The adult male Japanese quail has a well-developed cloacal gland that produces meringue-like white foam…and that males with larger cloacal gland areas are preferred during mating.」
[ https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/RD11057.htm 2012-08-27 ] ostensibly because of greater foam production during copulation…hmmm…and the feelings of a NEWLY-HIRED HUMAN BEING in the EMPLOY of a STIFF forcing a STIFFING ACTION, a person with buttocks crack filled with white foam who cannot fly off easily and spends all day in a hole in the ground, or, in a modern-day cubicle.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to employ; to hire; to rent
Japanese EDRDG: employ, hire
Unihan extended: employ, to hire
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: 52 entries
Chinese usage: 19 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 2 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 7 entries
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