貞 chastity (of females), fidelity, righteousness, constancy, virtue; firmly upholding one's moral principles; seeking the will of the gods ⺊,貝,

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テイ
TE　I

Kun-yomi

さだ
sa　da

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⺊

× HTML entity: ⺊ hair-raising, prepubescent young girl, divine, cresting head, conditions when one's rod is raised

　UPRIGHT REPEATED BOBBING HEAD
…or: UPRIGHT with HORIZONTAL MOTION, ARRAYED
　

貝

バイ,かい wealth, money, valuable outer shell, fleshpot, valuable external appearance

　AIM, EYE ON GOAL of EMISSIONS
…or: EYEING EXPERIENCE with EMISSIONS
…or: CENTER OF FLESHPOT with EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

YOUNG PREPUBESCENT GIRL as FLESHPOT
…or: DIVA with MONETARY VALUE
…or: RAISED ROD with AIM, GOAL of EMISSIONS

Top element is one side of a girl child's hairstyle that tied her hair up on each side of her head appearing fairly flat on top, so this top element came to mean「young girl child」(who, IF still appearing to be a virgin, was worth a small fortune due to being extremely scarce) and so, an additional meaning is DIVA, DIVINE BEING, someone heavenly, or capable of sending another person to heaven….
In Japan, the same hairstyle was used by adult male deities, and so in Japan too an additional meaning is DIVINE.
Ostensibly, one interpretation is that the WILL OF THE GODS is for a very young woman to remain CHASTE, not to schtup (ejaculation into a birth canal or other attainable orifice) too rampantly, and may mean「the value of virginity.」Possibly depicting an immovable and solidly chaste virgin but arguably, elements are also「young girl and value, money, resale price.」
The truth is that young girls (who could be confirmed as still virgin) were of fairly great value, since corpulent, wealthy, prurient, greasy, licentious, fishy-smelling「gentlemen」or「nobles」would buy them as concubines (or lease them for a short term) for the enjoyment of fulfilling the dream of going to heaven by deflowering her, and claiming that action was the WILL OF THE GODS, the 'divine right' of royalty (perhaps so, considering all the religious preachers and god-hucksters involved in sex scandals even still in the modern age, although not always with girls). Anyway, the points being made by these elements are firstly: up to the defining moment, that young girl had been「CHASTE with monetary value」and secondly, religious hucksters, psychics, soothsayers, and「diviners will take your money」(it may be worth it, though).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: chaste
Japanese EDRDG: upright, chastity, constancy, righteousness
Unihan extended: virtuous, chaste, pure; loyal

Used within names (nanori)
さざ　･　ただし　･　りょう

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.