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so re ru ・ so ra su ・ ha gu re ru
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「Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's [no-longer-integrated] bound feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「Foot dragging」with「hare, coney, bunny rabbit, charming foot」due to the animal's renowned prolific copulation rate. Rabbits are well known for running in a zigzagged pattern while fleeing from predators (ESCAPING from trouble), depicts the motion of DEVIATING or STRAYING from the straight and narrow path, literally zigging and zagging while running to escape. Straying from the path while becoming pretty good at doing it, EXCELLING. Meanings of PUMPED UP WITH ADRENALINE and HIGH-SPIRITED are due to the intense manner and frequency with which the animal copulates, and runs away. Note that the omitted marker stroke in the「copulating bent foot」element reduces the Japanese stroke count by one.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to escape; leisurely; outstanding
Japanese EDRDG: deviate, idleness, leisure, miss the mark, evade, elude, parry, diverge
Unihan extended: flee, escape, break loose
Used within names (nanori)
いっ ・ はや ・ へん
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.
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