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ARRAY of HEAD STREAMS
…or: ARRAY of BLOCKED STREAM
「Array of head streams」or if you prefer,「rod head streaming」depicts a CAPABLE INDIVIDUAL, such as a medical service provider or witchdoctor with talented hands working on a blockage of some sort. Or someone who has reached a certain AGE IN YEARS enabling his manhood to function on a regular basis (岁) with TALENTED USE OF HANDS (扌). With continued practice and use, TALENT also ACCUMULATES.
As「array streaming from head」to release an accumulation that JUST NOW OCCURRED would relate to a variety of pent-up fluid BLOCKAGES in one's groin, either from self-stimulation or assisted, pleasant or painful. See related glyphs with identical meaning: 'glans meat, glans wrapped in no-longer-integrated foot' (岁), and 'no-longer-integrated feet with erect dog penis and array of streaming emissions' (歳).
Depicts a DAMMED STREAM, as「horizontal motion with stream blockage」which causes various fluids to ACCUMULATE. Sexually transmissible infections can cause BLOCKAGES and fluid accumulation due to internal scarring of the urethra, releasing a slow「array streaming from head」known colloquially as clap gleet, or a dose.
AGE also accumulates one year at a time, presumably with increasing talent as well. Streams normally flow only downhill, unless under pressure, and dams make travelling upstream difficult if not impossible. The same is true with the aging process, despite what commercial messages try to lead us to believe: we all are going downhill with each passing accumulated year of age and returning to one's youth is forever blocked—life is a one-way trip to death, always has been and always will be.
Note the similarity to the glyph meaning 'squeezing grip' (寸).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: a moment ago; just now; (preceded by a clause of condition or reason) not until; (followed by a numerical clause) only; ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; only; only then; just now
Japanese EDRDG: genius, years old, cubic shaku
Unihan extended: talent, ability; just, only

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.



Japanese vocabulary: 153 entries


Chinese usage: 130 entries


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