Alluvial terraced slopes (see 掵)「using hands person bending over at the waist」to plant rice seedlings, an action that coincidentally also would reveal the naked buttocks (阜) and genitals of the scantily clad female workers doing that planting in the 'good old days…' (see 屙). This element appearing on the left means TERRACED SOIL SLOPES, also meaning NAKED since the slopes of the hills were first denuded, or made NAKED by cutting down all the trees and removing the roots in preparation for constructing the rice paddies that would later form long winding arches from one side of the clear-cut portion of the slope to the other. Cavities dug into the slope were then lined with a shell of compacted clay in order to hold water and prevent unwanted drainage. With the drainage orifice plugged, the paddies then became filled with fluids, fecal slurry as fertilizer, and mud. Consequently, also a euphemism for HUMAN BUTTOCKS when used with sexual innuendo, generally: SLOPE TERRACED WITH LINES OF MUCK AND IMPLANTED SHAFTS OF GREEN rice seedlings. In addition, successive impacting by shafts of various lengths in a single session might cause soil berms to form in what appear to be terraces, each pushed further up by a subsequent impaction, with pooling muck fluids between berms, of course.
　This element normally appears on the left, and any actions described by the right element in the same glyph would be performed facing a buttocks or a stepped slope. Note that a different element with the identical shape appears on the right side in glyphs, and means「village, town quarter, vagina」(…one side, or the other?) and refers to a VILLAGE as「a place where one wishes to dwell」but not always in some remote place way out in the countryside: also the special districts, zones, quarters within a larger city or town, often in the old days marked by surrounding walls with compacted SOIL SLOPES and gateways as checkpoints, restricted entryways, a self-contained city area as a separate community having its own specialized business establishments that cater to a specific kind or class of patron, but also its own local laws, government regulations, customs, and even language at times that apply within an administrative division at the local government level, patrolled by police.
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