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Left element is「small specialty hut, rest area, a room for resting」and uses the elements「person with fecal orifice, getting lucky」as OUTHOUSE, PRIVY, a RESTROOM, INFANT CARE AND DIAPER CHANGING STATION. Right element:「temporary use, begin to use, one's father」as「spreading legs in mooning position」together meaning temporary use of one's fecal orifice to LAY DOWN some turds, or something being LAID DOWN, or even GETTING LAID IN THIS SPECIALTY REST SHOP. Actually, one's father temporarily using a child's fecal orifice rather than a full-scale deflowering became somewhat common in China after the lords began purchasing young females as sex slaves, and a higher price was paid for virgins…see「female cicada」蝉 for the details.
Scholars explain this as something LAID in front of a small「specialty shop, rest stop」as a reference to PAVING the way by spreading stuff and「preparing the entrance」but again see「female cicada」蝉 for the details of the way paved…in any case, it appears that something is being laid and spread on, or in, or consisting of some sort of soil after the evening meal, hence LAYING NIGHT SOIL in a「small specialty hut」an outhouse.
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: Japanese variant of 舖|铺
Japanese: shop, store, counter for folded maps, etc.
Unihan extended: store, shop
EDRDG: shop; store; pave
Used within names (nanori)
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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: 24 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 9 entries
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- Strokes: 15
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