陌 raised soil path, road, street, pathway between muck-filled wetlands, street leading to the muck-filled wetlands ⻖,百,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ハク
HA　KU

Kun-yomi

まち　･　みち
ma　chi　･　mi　chi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

⻖

× HTML entity: ⻖ terraced soil slope, soil hill, rear view of naked buttocks, a fundament

　VERTICALLY TERRACED SLOPING BACKSIDE
　

百

ヒャク,ビャク,もも one hundred, many, numerous, all sorts and kinds, conspicuously white horizontal rod, a lot

　CONSPICUOUS ARRAY
…or: LATERAL RECIPROCATING ROD MOTION, INDICATES EXTENT with OPEN-MOUTHED, CONSPICUOUS, WHITE, BLANK, EMPTY, STARING IN A STUPOR, TO MAKE CLEAR, INSPECTION
　

Meanings of elements

NAKED HUMAN BACKSIDE with HUNDRED, MANY CONSPICUOUS, ROD in ORIFICE
…or: TERRACED SOIL SLOPE with CONSPICUOUS LINE
…or: ARRAY of, ROD with, a SEGMENT of CONSPICUOUS NAKED HUMAN BUTTOCKS

Chinese source describes simply a RAISED SOIL PATHWAY to enable getting from one place to the next.「Terraced slopes」need「many」PATHS to permit walking among flooded paddies. The paths would likely become an「array of conspicuous」places to walk among the crops traversing the side of a slope.
Or:「naked human buttocks, soil slope used by many conspicuous rods」as the well-travelled path, THE ROAD WELL-TRAVELLED, the PATHWAYS that likely led to the brothels, areas that also were surrounded by low walls with a RAISED PATH on top surrounding brothel districts were patrolled in order to prevent unauthorized access by those clients who needed to bypass the inspection stations in the gateways.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: raised path; street
Japanese EDRDG: east-west path between paddies, road
Unihan extended: foot path between rice fields

Used within names (nanori)
はざ

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