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Perhaps「mouth of an imbecile」who RIDICULED, JEERED, SCORNED, MOCKED the royals and was beheaded for doing so, since only an idiot would openly MOCK those who hold the power over your life and death, such as your boss at your job, or royalty (far better to learn to hold your tongue).
Right elements of「morning, dynasty, imbeciles」(「imbeciles」perhaps from inbreeding?) is also the glyph that depicts the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or, the northern portion of the Korean peninsula), infamous for the manner in which the country's news organizations and government propaganda arms SCORN, JEER AT, MOCK, and DERIDE everyone else. Note that the old Taoist sages held little regard for royalty, hereditary dynastic succession, the concept of heaven, Korea generally, or anyone else for that matter.
A speaking「mouth」and the idea of「boats rising up to heaven, carrying the imbecilic royals away」: some scholars suggest the meaning of the right element is「morning, imperial imbeciles in boats」rising to heaven and being RIDICULED, JEERED, SCORNED, MOCKED for doing so, or, ridiculing anyone believing such prattle. Conversely, some speculate that the royals themselves were JEERING at the commoners still alive on Earth as the royal boat rose up in a sort of Oriental rapture…incredible.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: see 嘲哳, (onom.) twitter; twittering sound; to ridicule; to mock
Japanese EDRDG: ridicule, insult
Unihan extended: ridicule, deride, scorn, jeer at
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: 15 entries
Chinese usage: 12 entries
- Glyph.09234
- Strokes: 15
- grade_08
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