庸 ordinary, ordinarily, to use, employ, commonplace; to pay the price for bad behavior, buying one's way out to escape pain or trouble, taxing, bribing to evade the law 广,丿,亠,肀,コ,甫,月,⺼,用,

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⺕ウ
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广

ゲン,× widespread behavior of humans in caves, early human habitations, a cave of wonder

　emphasis on HAND
…or: PALMING, HEAD CONTROL of ERECTION
…or: emphasis on ARRAY of ERECTIONS
…or: emphasis on CLIFF
　

丿

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

　ERECT, FLING
　

亠

トウ,× emphasis on rod, palming, under control, covered

　THIS IS THE POINT emphasis on ROD, SEGMENT, ARRAY, INDICATES EXTENT
　

肀

× hand firmly grasping a long thin and likely pointed object with twisting motions, screwing by hand, inscribe, following the rule of law

　SCREWING in HAND
…or: FILLED COMPLETELY, SCREWING, TWISTING, PLUGGED, NEEDLE and TWO ENDS OF SOMETHING MAKE CONTACT, IN-AND-OUT SIDE-TO-SIDE END-TO-END
…or: FIRMLY GRASPING, REAMING WITH A BOUGIE, SCRAPING, THE RULE OF LAW and RECIPROCATING MOTION OF ONE'S ROD STALK OR STEM
…or: ROD within DISEASED PENIS, SWINE'S SNOUT, PIG'S HEAD, DOG SNOUT (as euphemisms)
　

コ

× HTML entity: コ bent until the two ends of something make contact or nearly so, something folded over onto itself, end-to-end, in-and-out, side-to-side, bent and folded in half

　CONTAINED, FOLDED OVER
　

甫

ホ,フ,はじ just barely able to, use something for the first time, start use of, begin using, start now, just now at this moment; father, temporary action, needle twisting in meat with emphasis, reaming meat

　emphasis on NEEDLE, TWISTING, ROTATING in MEAT
…or: SCREWING emphasized within SPREAD LEGS with RODS and/or ORIFICES
…or: SCREWING emphasized with MOONING MEAT IN USE
　

月

ゲツ,ガツ,つき proceptivity; month; the Moon, lunar positions, lunar phases; mooning position, meat, meat phases

　ERECT in HIGH TENSION with TWO ORIFICES over-under inside SPREAD LEGS
…or: ERECTION DRIPPING in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT, TENSE GASPS
…or: A REASON FOR TONGUING MOUTH within SPREAD LEGS
…or: ROD within ORIFICE within SPREAD LEGS
　

⺼

× HTML entity: ⺼ body meat or flesh; meat of disintegrated feet; chicks and bunnies

　ERECTION and CLEVER with DROPS
…or: STIFF with CONGEALING and WRAPPED NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED BONES
…or: QUICK MOVEMENTS with FLEDGLING WING
　

用

⺕ウ,もち prepared and ready for use, now in use, presently being used, use of something, useful; business, task, errand, to employ, something one must do; call of nature, excretion, defecating, urinating

　STIFF ERECTION, QUICK MOVEMENT, STRETCHED TAUT with TENSION AND GASPS SPRING-LIKE ACTION and ROD within WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WETLANDS MOIST NIGHT SOIL, MUCK SLURRY PIT inside SPREAD LEGS
…or: BODY MEAT OR FLESH, MEAT OF CHICKS AND BUNNIES with RECIPROCATING ROD MOTION and with PROCEPTIVITY, THE MOON, LUNAR POSITION PHASES, MOONING POSITION, MEAT
　

Meanings of elements

WIDESPREAD BEHAVIOR OF HUMANS, PALMING ERECTION with HAND FIRMLY GRASPING IN TWISTING MOTIONS, SCREWING BY HAND, INSCRIBE, FOLLOWING THE RULE OF LAW with REAMING MEAT, SOMETHING ONE MUST DO

Depiction of what was COMMONPLACE as a result of cave o' wonder visits, a「firm grasp with reaming bougie in meat with emphasis on rod erection, in use as something one must do」perhaps EMPLOYING the USE of tools as part of the ORDINARILY performed medical procedure, in「orifices between spread legs」or「trained hands between legs」as something that happened all the time and everywhere, ORDINARY. Scholars suggest the meaning as menial slave labor, certainly true as being employed and getting one's hands and face dirty while doing a task that no one enjoyed: mincing live, raw meat at the head of a prick.
Perhaps also depicting「in the caves of wonder」「government authority」「in use, now employed」as the police brute squad of enforcers EMPLOYED to inspect and eject anyone in need of pipe cleaning, but who could be bribed, paid off to allow a sick individual to escape the torturous procedures, only for that person eventually to pay the price again to the bacteria later, with painful screaming and losing his life: inescapable, invariably, without fail, a certainty (必).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: ordinary; to use
Japanese EDRDG: commonplace, ordinary, employment
Unihan extended: usual, common, ordinary, mediocre

Used within names (nanori)
つね　･　のぶ　･　やす

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.