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モウ ・ ボウ
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あみ
a mi

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Meanings of elements
INSIDE WEAVE
…or: much WEAVING within SPREAD LEGS
…or: DUAL CROTCHES within SPREAD LEGS
[Elements vary by font] NET, a TRAP (see 蛧), something that SMELLS FISHY (with much「weaving action inside」its edges). Some fish NETTING is shaped in this manner, particularly that used in rivers with fish traps directing swimming fish into the mouth of an elongated bag made from NETTING.
In its original parlance, describing a thing or situation as "smells fishy" did refer to having probable cause for extreme doubt and suspicion, but most folks do not realize why innocuous fish are so maligned in this manner. A fishy or pungent-smelling discharge from the vagina or penis may signify the presence of an infection, so caution was advised...and still is today.
A poultice used to combat infection was applied using NETTING as「weave within spread legs」both as a description of the type of cloth used to allow air 'breathing' of the genitals, and to describe the manner in which it was wrapped around the pelvis and genitalia…and note that the given meaning of a「net crown」is NETTING WORN TO COVER A HEAD of some sort (that is, a head of some sort, and not a reference to the netting)—now, which royalty person wears netting as a crown on the head positioned above one's shoulders, and if you can think of one, why would that royal person do that?

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: net; network
Japanese EDRDG: net
Unihan extended: net; network

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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