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トウ
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はた
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Meanings of elements
ROD in SPREAD LEGS, LOINCLOTH with JUVENILE, BOY CHILD, INVOLUNTARY, MEASUREMENT TESTING FOR INCLUSION
Chinese modern source definition of a classifier for buildings can be easily decoded: 'buildings' are of course all erections of one sort or another, that is to say, something erected. Juvenile male erections were subjected to「measurement testing for inclusion」into a classification system, noting that during adolescence the size of the erection will necessarily continue to change until adulthood and may have required remeasurement fairly often, to everyone's delight.「Rod in spread legs, loincloth of juvenile boy, standing erect within pathway of soiled walls」as a screen or curtain used in one's carriage to partially conceal actions from passersby while engaged with one's page boy servant. This carriage accoutrement was deemed necessary when travelling in town in order to discourage pedestrians from swamping the carriage and attempting to join in the action—no aristocratic noble in dynastic China wished for his page boy to be trashed by an impromptu street clusterfuck. Cloth worn over the loins used as a SUNSCREEN to prevent sunburn of sensitive areas not yet covered by pubic hair. Finally, perhaps the boy's loincloth was attached to a pole or spear and flown as a BANNER above a moving carriage, providing a sign to others that the carriage was「in use」and further street solicitations were undesired at the moment…anyway, the juvenile did not likely need his loincloth attached while within the vehicle, and it was a good opportunity to dry and air it out (see 潼). Euphemistically, a long ribbon trailing from the tip of a spear is suggestive of threads discharged from one's weapon (糸, 弋).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: classifier for buildings; carriage curtain (old); banner
Japanese EDRDG: flag, banner
Unihan extended: carriage curtain; sun screen

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: 7 entries


Chinese usage: 4 entries


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