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「Special glands near the animal's anus secrete a pungently odorous fluid that is used for marking its territory. Like many other animals, they also scent mark with their feces and urine. The scales of these critters comprise about 20% of their total body weight. When pangolins feel threatened, they curl up into a tight, almost impenetrable ball to protect their tender undersides. If caught, they will thrash about using their tail muscles. Because their scales have very sharp edges, they can slice the skin of a human or predator when they do this. They may also release the stinky fluid from their [anal] glands as a defense mechanism. …When the pangolin's tongue is fully extended, it can be up to 16 inches (over 40 centimeters) longer than its entire body length! In fact in most species, their tongues actually start deep in their chest cavity, arising from the last pair of ribs, and are about a quarter inch (0.6 cm) thick.」
[ https://www.pangolins.org 2017-02-23 ]
…this incredible tongue in a mouth naturally having no teeth was the envy of clients with regard to his service provider「animal for spurting.」Pangolins also curl into a ball when threatened, not unlike a no-longer-integrated foot.「Animal for spurting」also accounts for the poaching of PANGOLINS as remedies for erectile dysfunction and as an aphrodisiac as used (erroneously perhaps) in traditional Chinese medicine and folklore that may mistake the stinking spurts of an infected human male with the defensive spurts from glands in the anal region of the other animal.
If truly meaning ARMADILLO, then this glyph was created recently, since armadillos are a New World animal and not indigenous to China. Moreover, PANGOLINS and ARMADILLOS are no longer considered to be of the same genetic family.「Animal nine, or animal spurting」may refer to the nine-banded armadillo, or the fact that when surprised, armadillos jump straight up vertically as if they are themselves a spurt from the ground, or, soon begin spurting after colliding with the front bumper or undercarriage of a vehicle passing at 85 miles per hour on a Texas highway. Armadillos are excellent diggers, and appear to spurt dirt from the rectum between hind legs while searching for worms and grubs as food. Armadillos are one of the few animal species that transmit leprosy, a disease that primarily affects the upper respiratory tract (skin lesions are only one symptom) causing sufferers to「spurt mucus in gushing chunks」quite a bit. Do not touch or eat an armadillo, particularly its feet between the toes…as a general rule, leave armadillo roadkill for the coyotes (unless famine conditions are dire, naturally).
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)
Chinese: armadillo
Unihan extended: armadillo
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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Chinese usage: 2 entries
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