Elements of「rod shaft within unbound loose moving freely, not tightly bound with repeated practice forming a habit」clearly describe a female who has become a MOTHER, both to underscore the habit of engaging in the joy of sex, and, to illustrate the widened postnatal loosened condition of her birth canal orifice (see 同 for more details), a condition ubiquitous in past eras prior to skilled episiotomy reconstruction that signaled MOTHERHOOD, a FEMALE WHO HAS GIVEN BIRTH. Elements as「rod within and emphasis on both sides of female」are likely as well, since many glyphs using「female (女)」as an element employ only two strokes, and not three.
　「One arrayed with emphasis between two loose dripping with gasps for a long time」describe an infant nursing at a MOTHER'S BREASTS, glands that enlarge significantly in order to provide milk to her newborn child.
　Elements of「rod shaft and dripping within tense gasping for a long time and unbound loose moving freely, repeated practice forming a habit」describe any FEMALE WITH WELL-DEVELOPED BREASTS of any age but with a size large enough to engage in mammary intercourse as a FUNCTION OF MAMMARY GLANDS. It must be obvious that a「horizontal rod with reciprocating motion」positioned between the breast locations as drawn in this glyph, is the first among many references in this database of Chinese glyphs referring to MAMMARY INTERCOURSE, a human activity popular to this day and one that has remained so for hundreds of thousands of years.
　Undeniably, the most obvious difference between the sexes among adult humans, noticeable in many cases, are the sizes of breasts of females and the penis of males—you know, the parts that sort of stick out, protrude…consequently, those meaty bulges are used as sexual markers, respectively…nevertheless, breasts generally are the more obvious, to both of the sexes. Early humans often walked about nearly naked, as some still do today, causing breast size to be one of the first clues of anyone's sexuality after maturation, even if viewed from a distance. Some scholars explain this glyph as two breasts with marker strokes or drips indicating either emphasis of the breasts or nipples for breast feeding: significantly, the elements are the same as「female」but rearranged somewhat, with two emphasis markers inserted. Perhaps merging「loose」while flopping a bit with age, with「tension, springy」while younger or being squeezed tightly, and with「dripping」as when filled with milk or partially covered with other spurted fluids not ejaculated from the breasts: MAMMARY GLAND FUNCTIONS.
　Some have suggested the elements are「loosely arrayed fledgling chicks」(modified 习) as a MOTHER hen, an adult who has charge of a bevy of young chicks for some reason, such as training them for services in a cave o' wonders. Not coincidentally, 女, 毋, 母, and 毌 as female, do not, mother, and penetrated (respectively) all utilize the same basic elements, with slight variations. Arguably, any MOTHER must be a「female who was penetrated」at some point in time and space.

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: female; mother
Japanese: mother, Mother, mum, mom
Unihan extended: mother; female elders; female
EDRDG: mother