「Use of hands for compacting soil with flaccid」or「classifier for cluster sets with flaccid」but with meanings of SUSPENDED in midair, HANGING DOWN as might a long sticky stream from a stud or peg ANXIOUS, CONCERNED and WORRIED that all add up to the constant drip, drip, drip of gonorrheal gleet from a now-flaccid stud peg while using hands to tie on a poultice and prevent slick spots from materializing on the floor.
　Old form clearly referenced one's poultice「netting and soil compaction」(罣) as being a hindrance to the actions about to occur, hence the need for removing the netting and HANGING it (to dry a bit, to prevent it from staining and soiling other items, and so on), SUSPENDING its use by hanging it from a stud protruding from a wall as an example.
　Great range of meanings given by external sources for this glyph also suggest the pleasurable use of a buttocks plug and the subsequent billing for services rendered…and in fact the glyph is used as a counter for clusterfucks, engaging in a gamble, risking one's life in exchange for pleasure.
　「Talented use of hands」with「buttocks plug」and「flaccid」as in HANG, HANGING something on a peg, some sort of an ACTION NOT YET COMPLETED or literally HANGING OUT OF something such as an anus, TO BE ONLY PARTWAY IN (as compared to the modern vernacular: 'all in babe'). Highlights of meanings include: hang, connected (hitched together), apply (hang upon), costs and expenses (hung costs), payment on account (hanging balance), depend (hung up on), meeting with someone (hang around), consult with (hang with), entrust (leave hanging), require time (hang time), about to begin to do, to actually begin to do, half-finished (as in, a hung jury), sit on something (hang your backside), sprinkle over, and so on and so forth: fly now, pay later.

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: to hang or suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); to be worried or concerned; to make a phone call (dialect); to register or record; to hitch; classifier for sets or clusters of objects
Japanese: charge, duty, person in charge, official, clerk, credit, money owed on an account, bill, hot noodles in broth, proportion, in the midst of, rest, rack, hanger, -clad, tenths, times, able-to-seat, starting, engaging, expenses, costs, attack, barb, taking a quantity, similar to …, dependent on …, reliant on …, while …, when …, in the midst of …, to take, to hang, to come into view, to arrive, to come under, to start, to attend, to deal with, to handle, to have started to, to be on the verge of, to overlap, to cover, to be fastened, to be covered, to be caught in, to get a call, to depend on, to hoist, to raise, to sit, to expend, to make, to multiply, to secure, to put on, to burden someone, to apply, to turn on, to set, to put an effect on, to hold an emotion for, to bind, to pour onto, to argue, to deliberate, to present, to increase further, to catch, to set atop, to erect, to wager, to bet, to risk, to stake, to gamble, to be partway doing …, to begin …, to be about to …, indicates is being directed to, personal, family
Unihan extended: hang, suspend; suspense
EDRDG: hang; suspend; depend; arrive at; tax; pour

Used within names (nanori)
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