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Referring to「metal」as it is「first, like the head of a mushroom.」Iron in its first, or raw state as CAST IRON. The Chinese began casting iron by pouring red hot molten metal into sand molds, with the shape of the front moving edge of the molten iron resembling the head of a mushroom emerging from soil, and so on with all the other imagery similarities. Note that this method was subsequently improved by adding more and more channels until the ingots attached to the pouring runners resembled piglets suckling a sow (they say), hence the English name PIG IRON—but why not「feline iron」or「canine iron」or「tailless tenrec iron」or「naked mole rat iron」or「mongoose iron」and so on?—the name PIG IRON seems more to do with「thrusting penis spurts with head sliding in black feces copulation」as a characteristically swine-based trait. Sandy, gritty copulation is associated with anal coitus in dynastic China.
While the West claims to have「invented」pig iron in 1828 [ https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/afB_Yw9pQF6ABgYsi_e39A 2019-10-27 ]
The Chinese claim to have invented and so named the stuff as PIG IRON using this glyph a mere 23 centuries prior to the British [ https://www.china.org.cn/top10/2011-03/04/content_22054243_5.htm 2019-10-27 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: shining metal
Japanese EDRDG: pig iron
Unihan extended: mill
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: 8 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 20 entries
- Glyph.08251
- Strokes: 14
- jlpt-N2 grade_09
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