Top element「old man, male homosexual, burning bundle of fagot (faggot) rods」and the lower element is「condition of long stress, gasping, rod with no-longer-integrated feet, line of female service providers」that suggest various CONSIDERATIONS in most any or all combinations of those elements…with some combinations that ought to be reconsidered, perhaps.「Homosexual gasping for a long time」or「old man with line of service providers' no-longer-integrated feet」as THINKING AND CONSIDERING one's memories of younger days, one's DEAD FATHER and what likely was the cause of his death.
Old men such as sages have had a long time to THINK and CONSIDER all sorts of things, and an old man gasping likely might be prompted to think about, consider deeply his own impending death and its cause(s).
Replacement glyph is「gasping and whacking, coercion」(攷). According to pundits, the original elements were「center of the head」with「crossed」or「doubly whacked, whole lotta (self)-love」(爻) over「rod long time in tension, gasping」and depicted THINKING about some matter…and CONSIDERING a selfie.
Perhaps there is nothing more intense, nothing that causes more gasping, nothing else that causes a human to THINK DEEPLY AND CONSIDER one's personal beliefs and principles as well as the consequences of both cooperating, or not, any more than good old-fashioned torture techniques—just ask any so-called heretic who was invited to confess before the Christian Inquisition. EXAMINE and INVESTIGATE as they relate to being tortured with those「burning sticks and gasping.」…the concept being to cause someone to gasp as he THINKS and CONSIDERS about cooperating in the moments before a stick of burning embers (literally, a fagot (faggot)) is shoved up a fundament (literally, an ass hole, anus) in the same manner that homosexuals poke each other with woody shafts having red ember-like hot tips, or「flaming」(see glyph meaning,「torture, interrogate」拷 in ancient China). And yes, being poked in an orifice that is normally covered by one's pants, with red embers on the tip of a burning stick would give most anyone reason to pause, and to consider: how long will this require to heal? How will I clean myself after defecating? How will I prevent this wound from becoming infected and festering? How will I sit? How will I ever be able to sleep with this level of constant pain? How can I prevent the wound from healing over and closing my fundament? The list goes on…perhaps better to capitulate, eh? debunKanji does not state a moral opinion regarding the use of the term FAGOT (FAGGOT) to describe HOMOSEXUAL MALES, but is simply explaining how and why the use of the term originated, and the glyphs behind that usage.
And, here is a good example of the same thing in English as with kanji glyphs. How many English speakers know that "fundamental" is the adjectival form of "fundament"? Even more fundamental than that are the questions of what is a fundament, and can you get along without one? That is exactly WHY a fundament was selected to represent the meaning of "fundamental." But, who thinks of that when the word "fundamentally" is used (as basic and essential as a fundament)? Probably, only those without one.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to beat; to hit; to inspect; to test; to take an exam; to check; to verify; to test; to examine; to take an exam; to take an entrance exam for; deceased father
Japanese EDRDG: consider, think over
Unihan extended: examine, test; investigate

Used within names (nanori)
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