負 owe, loss, losers, carry or bear a burden, load, be defeated, negative charge (electrical) 刀,⺈,貝,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

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Kun-yomi

ま(ける　･　ま(かす　･　お(う
ma　ke　ru　･　ma　ka　su　･　o　u

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刀

トウ,かたな,そり ream a hole, a reamer; sever, cut; shear, mow; weapon or tool with a pointed end or sharpened edge

　QUICK MOVEMENT and TENSE
…or: ERECTION in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

⺈

× HTML entity: ⺈ head and neck exposed, in danger; looking upward, head up peeping out from inside

　HEAD ROLLED BACK
…or: the HEAD in 2ND POSITION
…or: HEAD in HIGH TENSION
　

貝

バイ,かい wealth, money, valuable outer shell, fleshpot, valuable external appearance

　AIM, EYE ON GOAL of EMISSIONS
…or: EYEING EXPERIENCE with EMISSIONS
…or: CENTER OF FLESHPOT with EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

IN DANGER with WEALTH
…or: HEAD IN HIGH TENSION WRAPPED and MONEY
…or: SWORD at FLESHPOT
…or: FLESHPOTS IN DANGER or DANGERS with FLESHPOTS

「Head and neck, looking up in danger」above「fleshpot」suggests that this time the other cannibals have captured you as the LOSER.「Head in high tension over fleshpot」but formerly「sword, reaming」with「fleshpot」as this glyph appears when used as an element. Moments prior to decapitation with a「sword」: heads were severed from corpses with swords after a battle to be returned to the winning side's liege lord and displayed as a sign of the victory and proof of death. The victors normally emasculated the vanquished as well, stuffing the genitalia into the mouth of each decapitated head, just for added effect (see related glyph), THE LOSERS.
A「head in high tension for a long period」or「wrapped up in」thoughts about「fleshpot, cauldron, wealth」might suggest anxiety over how to feed one's family. Likely the case if you OWE much debt, or have big LOSSES that have become a heavy BURDEN, LOAD to BEAR, CARRY around in your head full of tension and anxiety. The idea of「long-term high stress and tension with all your remaining valuables wrapped up on and carried on your back」seems to apply to a DEFEATED person, or someone FLEEING creditors or an enemy, a refugee.
Old version (as in 賴) of someone armed with a「sword」and「reaming」your「fleshpots, wealth」may be seeking to collect a debt you OWE, and will likely result in your LOSS of supper, to say the least. Clearly, a NEGATIVE situation of low quality. Note that in the West debtors in default formerly were imprisoned, causing repayment to be virtually impossible while remaining in chains until starving to death. Long have the wealthy valued riches above other human lives.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc)
Japanese EDRDG: defeat, negative, minus, loss, bear, owe, assume a responsibility
Unihan extended: load, burden; carry, bear

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.