主 the owner or master, lord, main, principal; GOD 亠,土,丶,王,

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Gothic:

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シュ　･　ス　･　シュウ
SHU　･　SU　･　SHU　U

Kun-yomi

ぬし　･　おも　･　あるじ
nu　shi　･　o　mo　･　a　ru　ji

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

亠

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

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

土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

　SCREWING with ROD
…or: RODS UP
…or: ROD within A FLESH SEAM
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

王

オウ,～ノウ,× king, the crown, rulership

　WIDE ARRAY of LAND
…or: WIDE ARRAY of DIRT, NIGHT SOIL
…or: WIDE ARRAY of FLESH SEAMS
　

Meanings of elements

emphasis on KING
…or: above the KING
…or: PALM in CONTROL of LAND

Most likely,「in control of land」as the LORD and MASTER of slaves and wealth, the landowners.
Marker above「king, lord」and if a man's home truly was his castle in the old days, then the marker stroke is designating the PRINCIPAL person, the LORD of the household,「head of the land.」Perhaps depicts「palming night soil」that a slave was required to perform for the owner or lord after defecation, since if someone owned a slave then why not use the slave to wipe one's hole after defecating and then empty the chamber pot? or maybe the lord was just too damn fat to reach back there and do it by himself, as are some wrestlers.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games)
Japanese EDRDG: lord, chief, master, main thing, principal
Unihan extended: master, chief owner; host; lord

Used within names (nanori)
かず　･　ず　･　もん

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.