See 丌 as one archaic variant of this glyph that now forms the lower strokes.「Goal on table」or「meat pile on table」(varies by font), but most likely「meat pile emitting」to describe various fluids slowly draining from a pile of meat, either after being cut and butchered, or relatively whole carcasses with battle wounds and relaxing sphincters: recall that humans today don't often eat living red meat, which is to say most of us do not often eat other animals while the animal is still alive, primarily due to reasons of personal safety to prevent the food source from biting us in return (…ever tried to bite a live dog?).
　「Arrayed inside fleshpot」as the classifier for DEAD BODIES, using a COFFIN or other receptacles for dead bodies, and the TOOLS with which to butcher, cook and eat dead bodies, glyph is a vivid and graphic reminder of our human ancestors all being cannibals (see 俱 and 倶) and the rest of us as omnivores—although mostly forgotten on a daily basis by consumers today, someone still has to butcher that cattle for the burger, the chicken for the nuggets, the swine for the sausage, and glean the meat off of dead bodies as human food. English words「coffer, coffin, casket, basket」all formerly referred to food, with meat being the valued commodity, the currency of the day, in fact…keeping other animals in one's home as pets, other than young helpless human females with no-longer-integrated feet in China, is a fairly recent change—prior to that, most animals kept as pets today were considered prime foodstuffs, comestibles.
　「Human cannibals likely took a big bite out of their fellow humans about 10,000 years ago, according to a study that examined prehistoric bones with scratch and bite marks on them. …In the end, they discovered 30 bones belonging to three individuals: a robust adult, a gracile adult and an infant. However, the infant had only one complete bone (a shoulder blade, or scapula) that did not show signs of cannibalism, the researchers said. …But the practice goes way back: there's even evidence of Neanderthal cannibalism in Belgium and Spain from more than 40,000 years ago, when they went extinct, Live Science previously reported.」
　　[　https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prehistoric-human-bones-show-signs-of-cannibalism/ 2017-03-28　]　
　Modern fonts merge elements of「eyes, fleshpot, goal」placed upon a「base, table」or with hollow legs「spurting fluids」in a Chinese cauldron. Working beside a cauldron with meanings of a cooking UTENSIL, TOOL, and INGREDIENTS that were placed into the cauldron. EQUIP WITH, FURNISH as a reference to food and basic equipment furnished in a kitchen. The Chinese three-legged cauldron, or fleshpot with hollow legs was at times filled partially with water, so that when the pot was placed in and above coals, the meat juices would seethe and percolate out of the hollow shafts, cooking foods with steam to mitigate scorching and burned supper meat.「Hollow leg」in English still refers to someone who can eat a great deal of flesh and drink plenty of alcohol, a term brought back to England from China by the opium lords and traders a few centuries ago.

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: tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument; talent; ability; to possess; to have; to provide; to furnish; to state; classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
Japanese: tool, means, ingredients, counter for armor, suits, sets of furniture, garnish, embellishment, to accompany, to follow, to assemble, to prepare, in detail, with great care, completely, again and again, to furnish, to provide for, to equip, to install, to have ready, to prepare for, to possess, to be endowed with, to be armed with, to be furnished with, to be among, to be one of, to be possessed of
Unihan extended: tool, implement; draw up, write
EDRDG: tool; utensil; means; possess; ingredients; counter for armor, suits, sets of furniture

Used within names (nanori)
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