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Lead is a「metal」that can be「split」from an「object」(or「hollowed out」from a rock), indicating that it is relatively easy to smelt by heating rock containing lead ore called「galena」(lead sulfate. A very hot campfire could melt galena), leaving a hollow place in the rock where the lead ore vein used to be. The Egyptians and Romans wrote with actual metallic lead, poured into hollow sticks, writing on papyrus (2,000 years ago) and the Brits who first used graphite initially believed it to be a form of metallic lead (actually, it is carbon), hence the misnomer PENCIL LEAD.
Source elements are「person taking stance with downward thrusting motions of penis into stretched skin over orifice」or in some fonts,「…to split an orifice, to copulate in an orifice」as in to PERFORATE that obviously could have referred to the initial penetration of a virgin's hymen, but more likely not…rather, the gruesome scene is one of a man using a gangrenous bound foot of a concubine, a foot full of dead meat with no functioning nerves any longer and called a LEAD FOOT also because of the grey, gangrenous color of the ever-softening flesh, and PERFORATE, EASILY PENETRATE referred to a case that,…well, with elements as「split, emit」or「stretched skin」you get the point, we suppose.
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: lead (chemistry)
Japanese: lead
Unihan extended: lead plumbum
EDRDG: lead
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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 76 entries
Chinese usage: 19 entries
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