卵 ovum, spawn, egg, oval shape; female gamete, origin 卯,丶,

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卯

ボウ,モウ,う slit; ovaries; bunny rabbit, coney, hare; mortise

　ERECT inside REPEATED RAISED LEGS and BENT OVER
…or: ERECTION inserted in HIGH-PRICED
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

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Meanings of elements

within OVARIES

The old character for「rabbit, ovaries」(卯) with the insides marked, depicting the location of EGGS, OVA inside the ovaries. Rabbits being prolific at reproduction. Rabbit ovaries have been commonly used for research, with one reason being due to the animal's reproductive rate:「True, it takes a huge effort and many animal lives to yield a cure or therapy for a disease. When this happens, however, uncountable humans (and animals too) benefit, from the time of the discovery to eternity. The first vaccines to be developed were for rabies and continue to benefit animals today. Polio has been nearly eradicated from earth. Vaccines alone have already saved billions of human lives. And, of course, vastly more number of animals are used for food than research. In fact, more end up as roadkill than used in U.S. labs every year. If there is any one use of animals by humans that is justifiable [it] is their use to advance medical science and knowledge.」
[comments at https://speakingofresearch.com/tag/ovary/ 2013-05-31 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: egg; ovum; spawn
Japanese EDRDG: egg, ovum, spawn, roe
Unihan extended: egg; ovum; roe; spawn

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.