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「Inner wall of soil」inserted amidst the glyph「clothes」or as「cloth」with a「dirty, soiled wall」written within its elements, seemingly might describe having been positioned inside, the side rubbing against one's buttocks that became soiled with skid marks, post-excretion fecal remains on a loincloth OUT OF SIGHT, and the actual feeling of being within the WRONG SIDE, the BACKSIDE, the REAR, a MOTIVE, a BEHIND, and so on.
「Plugging a dirty orifice with rough walls that were bound in cloth」suggests being INSIDE the bent sole of a no-longer-integrated foot, the INTERIOR WITHIN.「Cloth」is derived from elements describing the binding of no-longer-integrated feet with long, strong cloth, and「inside the lining walls」of the feet bound by such cloths will be what is normally the UNDERSIDE of the foot, the INVERSE, the BACKSIDE, the unseen INSIDE (i.e., the inner side) of the skin slit created there, and also is suggestive of a MOTIVE for ACTUAL FEELING.
Finally, depicting the LINING INSIDE (or the REVERSE side) of a cloth or garment that covers the unseen INSIDE (i.e., the inner side). No matter what the outside of a garment may be, the actual feel of the material is caused by the「inside lining wall」of clothing.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裡|里
Japanese EDRDG: back, amidst, in, reverse, inside, palm, sole, rear, lining, wrong side
Unihan extended: inside, interior, within
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: 175 entries
Chinese usage: 5 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 60 entries
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