努 toil, exertion, endeavor, strive, diligent 女,又,奴,丿,ㄅ,力,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ド
DO

Kun-yomi

つと(める
tsu　to　me　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

女

ジョ,ニョ,ニョウ,おんな,め female

　ROD and LOOSENED with ERECTION
…or: HORIZONTAL with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED LOOSE FOOT and NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT BENT FOR WRAPPING
…or: LOOSENED with GASPING TENSION
　

又

ユウ,また,また～ once again, this or that, yield, both, any method at all, crotch

　GASPING and TAUT
…or: LAME FOOT with the OTHER SIDE, TOO
　

奴

ド,やつ,やっこ sex slave, low-class person, whore, prostitute, stinky cunt (vulgar); cold tōfu

　FEMALE CROTCH
　

丿

ヘツ,えい,よう straight up erect, quick jerking movement, stretched taut

　ERECT, FLING
　

ㄅ

× tension gasping taut spring-like action, unbound busted foot of dynastic China, painful stress

　ELASTIC POTENTIAL STRAIN ENERGY, FLEXIBLY BENDED AND SPRINGY, FLECTURE TENSION
　

力

リョク,リキ,リイ,ちから force, power, strength, effort

　QUICK MOVEMENT IN ANY DIRECTION and TENSE FOR A LONG TIME WITH GASPING
…or: ERECTION through NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

Meanings of elements

SLAVE, CUNT and EFFORT
…or: FEMALE CROTCH with POWER
…or: SPRINGY ERECTION with FEMALE CROTCH, AGAIN AND AGAIN

The most obvious meaning as「sex slave, cunt, female crotch efforts」refers to the daily life of a sex slave TOILING in ancient China, but also to pimping a child sex slave most anywhere today. The English usage of 'hard' to mean 'difficult' originated with some material being hard and therefore difficult to penetrate, likely stuff located within a compacted, constipated anus associated with a female crotch, or a body in a state of rigor mortis…or both for that matter.
「Female crotch efforts」best describe AS MUCH EFFORT AS POSSIBLE, TOIL, STRIVING, DILIGENCE, ENDEAVORING…maybe in reference to males bar-hopping or hopping on sex slaves (「power with cunts」), but also to females during the process of giving birth. Childbirth was the leading cause of death for young females, who began birthing at about the same time as the cycle of menstruation and ovulation started in the early teenage years while the mother's skeleton and orifices were still small and subject to severe tearing.
Perhaps, a reference was to get the MOST EFFORT POSSIBLE out of one's「female slaves, prostitutes」by working them to the point of death, prostitution being a form of slavery especially when controlled by a pimp. Squeezing the last possible ounce of energy out of their TOIL, STRIVING, DILIGENT EFFORT, ENDEAVOR, not unlike the business world of many employer-employee relations today where 'this job sucks.'
After any battle, the enemy older males were likely slaughtered and decapitated, but the females and young boys were taken as various sorts of slaves.
The concept of doing something physically and never becoming tired or giving up also applies to「female crotch effort」since the human female is physically able to copulate continuously with many multiple partners in a seemingly endless succession, with no respite between partners (…passing out is a distinct possibility, however).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to exert; to strive
Japanese EDRDG: toil, diligent, as much as possible
Unihan extended: to exert, strive, make an effort; to pout

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.