誄 eulogize, praise the dead; necromancer, making blackened magic by romancing with dead bodies; secrets, keeping one's activities hidden from discovery by others 言,耒,

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ルイ
RU　I

Kun-yomi

しのびごと
shi　no　bi　go　to

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言

ゲン,ゴン,い,こと intercourse oral or otherwise, to say or speak words, sexual activity and foreplay

　MANY LINES with MOUTH
…or: MANY RODS with ORIFICE
…or: PALM on ROD with HORIZONTAL RECIPROCATING MOTIONS and ORIFICE
　

耒

ライ,ルイ,き,く,すき plow, ploughing into soil, to come; a grasp, a plow handle, grip; loosening soil and preparing to plant seeds; wearing it, cultivating culture, liking it

　DENSE HARDWOOD PRICK with EMIT DOWNWARD
…or: HEAD BOBBING with CHANGED PHYSICAL STATE and ROD with EMISSIONS
…or: REPEATED HEAD BOBBING, SLIDING in the IMMATURE or SHEEP
　

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INTERCOURSE with PLOUGHING INTO SOIL

Traditionally in China, most folks were buried and not cremated (the opposite is true in Japan).「Intercourse and ploughing into soil」might refer to digging a grave and the related speeches and eulogies, or quite possibly praising the dead by a thankful necrophiliac ploughing into soil, perhaps something akin to「…the best I ever had!.」EULOGIZING and PRAISING THE DEAD can take on a different meaning than is commonly held today:「Singular accounts of necrophilia in history are sporadic, though written records suggest the practice was present within Ancient Egypt. Herodotus writes in The Histories that, to discourage intercourse with a corpse, ancient Egyptians left deceased beautiful women to decay for 'three or four days' before giving them to the embalmers. Herodotus also alluded to suggestions that Greek tyrant Periander had defiled the corpse of his wife, employing a metaphor: 'Periander baked his bread in a cold oven.' …Hittite law the 16th century BC through to the 13th century BC explicitly permitted sex with the dead.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia 2015-11-21, emphasis ours ]
Before decrying too loudly, note that cannibalism, torture until death, and necrophilia were all portrayed in the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by the Brothers Grimm in their tale for children.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to eulogize the dead; eulogy
Japanese EDRDG: condolence message
Unihan extended: eulogize, praise the dead

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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