旄 red flagging, tassels, long hair or beard of old man, dead animal's tail, dead prick of old man, extinct, aggressive 㫃,方,𠂉,毛,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ボウ　･　モウ
BO　U　･　MO　U

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

㫃

× threads of different colors streaming from a woody shaft tip, sticky threads of different colors streaming from the head of a shaft, to flag a problem, to cease, to desist from, do this no more, to raise a red flag

　METHODS of a MAN, PERSON
…or: YOU with a MAN
…or: METHOD OF CONTROLS for ERECTIONS and TENSE GASPING, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET with PERSONS
…or: PALMING ERECTION with TENSE GASPS and MAN PERSON, TAUT and ERECT
　

方

ホウ,かた,～かた,～がた a person, you, that way, direction, side, method of doing something, upright posture, square, something multiplying itself, only this way

　(marker) in front of SCORPION
…or: PALMING ERECT onto NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET
　

𠂉

× HTML entity: 𠂉 prostrated, prone, supine, laid out flat

　THE HEAD with BOUGIE INSERTED
…or: HEAD and HORIZONTAL
　

毛

モウ,け bristle, bristly; untouchable, causing panic; hair, feathers, quills, fins

　ENTRUSTING REPEATEDLY
…or: REPEATED MANY TIMES with PENIS
…or: SHORT HAIRS on PENIS
…or: PENIS in PUBIC HAIRS
…or: SCORPION TAIL BRISTLES
　

Meanings of elements

STICKY THREADS OF DIFFERENT COLORS STREAMING FROM POLE TIP OR HEAD OF A SHAFT, FLAG A PROBLEM, CEASE, DESIST, DO NO MORE, RAISE A RED FLAG with UNTOUCHABLE, CAUSING PANIC, BRISTLY PUBIC HAIR
…or: A PERSON, YOU, THAT WAY, SIDE METHOD OF DOING, SQUARE OR RHOMBUS SHAPE, SOMETHING MULTIPLYING ITSELF with PROSTRATED, LAID OUT FLAT and UNTOUCHABLE, CAUSING PANIC, BRISTLY PUBIC HAIR

Old men in China had long pubic hairs that waved a bit (facial beards are one form of pubic hair).
Long-haired cattle may have been aurochs. Aurochs were the ancestors of domestic cattle, believed to finally have become extinct about 400 years ago:
「A feature often attributed to the aurochs is blond forehead hairs. Historical descriptions tell that the aurochs had long and curly forehead hair, but none mentions a certain colour for it.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs 2013-07-19 ]
Aurochs were far more aggressive than the remaining breeds of domesticated cattle. The eventual victor of the male battles during mating season won a harem of females all in estrus, impatiently awaiting his arrival with their reward. Females also battled one another for the right to be nearer the front of the line.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 耄; banner decorated with animal's tail
Japanese EDRDG: tassel on a flag, long haired cow, old man
Unihan extended: a kind of ancient flag; old

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.