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TE I ・ SE TSU ・ ZE CHI
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「Wisdom with eroticism」refers to TURNING AROUND MIDWAY, TURNING BACK AND RETURNING home perhaps, and if so then hopping and bobbing upon the「short one leg」might be in order, recalling that the Chinese euphemism for the erect penis is a short leg, not a short arm as in other cultures.
Although, it might have been somewhat entertaining in the perverse sense of humor to witness a person actually attempting to walk with only one leg, normally considered an impossibility…similar to the sound of one hand clapping, perhaps? what were those guys thinking? likely, hopping upon that one leg.
Walking with one leg means the subject must be lame, crippled, disabled, physically deficient, going nowhere but in circles, hobbled, and so forth. Using only one leg at a time of a service provider but「changing directions midway through」that would entail turning and facing the opposite way, assuming she doesn't shift positions. Actually, nothing and nobody can literally walk with just one leg, but a client can use only one leg of a service provider, causing a hopping-like repeated shuttling motion of that foot:
「Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's [no-longer-integrated] feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to walk around; turn back midway; walk with one leg
Unihan extended: to walk around; turn back midway
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
Chinese usage: 2 entries
- Glyph.08754
- Strokes: 14
- other
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