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One's initial experiences with sex, other than when alone, are often accompanied by some shuddering. Humans of both sexes experiencing sex with another human for the first few times often tremble uncontrollably, and not from cold.
Alternatively, after an earthquake, the topsoil often appears wrinkled as if「furrows from heaven, slits with lips」have been carved into it. The Earth would naturally tremble as a mighty dragon lands hard upon the soil (right?).「Clam」may be a reference to the tectonic plates of the Earth's crust, or, the manner in which the topsoil tends to split open (and sometimes close again) during an earthquake, as does a clamshell.
Yet, the base elements meaning「something that (seems to) appear out of thin air and causes sticky fluids of mud and water in furrowed areas to cascade down the hillside」might best describe an EARTHQUAKE. Formerly, humans lived in caves and pit holes (not tall buildings), so terraced and farmed areas upon slopes were the most likely candidates to be disrupted by an earthquake.
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: to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; excited; shocked; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing thunder; ☳
Japanese: zhen, shaking, ague, trembling, shivering, to shake, to tremble, to vibrate, to shiver, to quake, to quaver, to quiver, to swing, to wave, to veer, to deflect, to lean towards, to hug
Unihan extended: shake, quake, tremor; excite
EDRDG: quake; shake; tremble; quiver; shiver
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: 132 entries
Chinese usage: 124 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 32 entries
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