Traditionally, this was the glyph used in China to mean no-longer-integrated FEET (「body meat with dripping shit stench and bent over double」), and may have been the source of the English expression 'to get your KICKS' and similar phrases meaning 'thrills, to do something, especially something bad, because it gives you a feeling of excitement' (also see 踋). Many seemingly non-sequitur expressions with obtuse origins found their way into the English language after the opium drug-selling British were ousted from China and returned home a few centuries ago, bringing with them the literal translations of Chinese kanji they had learned as street lingo.
　Feet in the normal position are used with the sole facing down, such as when walking or running.「Meat confronting, facing」someone, or「meat in contrary position」depicts a ROLE OF A PERSON…a role is the「…character or part played by a performer. Characteristic and expected social behavior of an individual. A function or position」
　　[　https://www.thefreedictionary.com/role　]　 that in dynastic China especially described a person with no-longer-integrated FEET, the lower LEGS of a concubine or other service provider, twisted and bent into contrary positions by clients in order to get MONEY…the BASE PART.「Meat rejected」as KICK, KICKED OUT, KICKED AWAY that is generally considered rude behavior. This glyph also represented the manner of expressing dissatisfaction by a client with a service provider. Note that the given Chinese meanings are「the leg of an animal, or, the leg an object.」…a 'thing,' and not the leg of a normal human being. FOOT, BASE, FOUNDATION as the starting point or the first place for activities, upon which are built other stuff.
　As depicted in erotic Chinese art, men in dynastic China masturbated by wrapping no-longer-integrated feet around an erect penis ostensibly to lower the risk of contracting a sexually transmissible disease or infection that often occurred when performing coitus within some sort of mucous membrane system of a female service provider, and, to gain hand-control over the pressure applied to the foot meat surrounding a weakened penis that functioned as a living cockring.
　「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's [no-longer-integrated] bound feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17　]　
　「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
　　[　https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05　]　

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: role; foot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object); classifier for kicks
Japanese: foot, leg, gait, pace, bottom structural component of a kanji, money, coin, counter for chairs or seats, to have legs, to be able to get around, to be a good runner
Unihan extended: leg, foot; base, leg, foundation
EDRDG: skids; leg; undercarriage; lower part; base

Used within names (nanori)
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