「Various levels of terraced rice paddies that cover a hillside slope both horizontally and vertically.」Enclosures of level areas with embankment walls were built into the sides of slopes to catch rainwater for natural irrigation. Depicting TERRACED SLOPES with rice paddies on many levels. As one descends a hill it widens, giving the impression from afar that the hill at many levels had been horizontally sliced through and then became slightly twisted, revealing the rice paddies for farming that twisted around the curves on the surface of the hill (imagine a potato, sliced ready for frying potato chips, spread along a tabletop).
　As an element, this glyph is simplified into the shape and with the meaning euphemistically of a HUMAN BUTTOCKS (note the emphasis marker on the upper 'orifice, cavity' element along the slope, as if looking at a female's backside), and is applied to government bureaucrats, thieves, and aristocracy, both as a collective group and individually. The sages held a thinly veiled contempt for the government, aristocracy, bureaucrats, and thieves, among other groups.
　Refers to a VILLAGE that is not always some remote place way out in the countryside, but also are special districts, zones, quarters within a larger city or town, often in the old days marked by surrounding walls with 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, with police patrols and brute squads as enforcers. Used as a euphemism for both the HUMAN BUTTOCKS or the VULVA, both having a similar design and shape of rounded sides with a wet hole in the center, albeit on a different size scale (generally). As an element that appears on the left side of glyphs, denuded terrace-farmed SOIL SLOPES with trees removed, covered with stinky fluids, muck, and fecal slurry fertilizer in clay-lined paddies, and therefore NAKED. When it appears on the right side in glyphs, means「scorpion burrow, downward spiral into slippery slope orifice」as a VILLAGE or as NAKED FEMALE GENITALIA, the birthplace of every human being who has ever lived, the hole into which the「scorpion tail, appendage spewing venom, human penis」disappears and dwells for a time.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: abundant; mound
Japanese: mound, hill
Unihan extended: mound; abundant, ample, numerous
EDRDG: hill; mound; left village radical (no. 170)

Used within names (nanori)
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