Despite some notions to the contrary,「female child」refers to young, prepubescent little girls as the object of a male's NATURAL FONDNESS FOR, and EASY TO DO, what one chooses when given a choice with no legal or social stigmas associated with that choice, as it was when these glyphs were created thousands of years ago: what is LIKED [not agreein', just sayin']. Some folks cannot prevent themselves from bursting into song whenever this glyph appears with a rendition of "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" as belted out by the great Maurice Chevalier in the 1958 classic motion picture, Gigi If you have not yet experienced this little ditty, an Internet search will assuredly quell your curiosity.
　In fact, what is LIKED?「female (女) + child (子)」= 好. Still a problem in 2021 (and today, too, whenever you read this…it has never been only Jeffrey Epstein and his many clients):「The issue of 'child marriage,' when girls are forced to marry older men for money, has worsened during the coronavirus crisis. The UN Population Fund says more than 33,000 girls worldwide are forced into wedlock every day. The problem was already serious in Pakistan, but financial burdens caused by the pandemic are putting even more children at risk.」
　　[　https://www.worldvision.org/child-protection-news-stories/child-marriage-facts 2023-05-14　]　
　In the sticky heat of a June day in Juba, South Sudan’s capital in 2024, a girl aged 14 years (still attending elementary school) was sold as a「bride」for a payment of 123 cattle, 120 million South Sudanese pounds (about $44,000 or £33,000) in cash, and a plot of land…she was dubbed「the most expensive bride in South Sudan」in TikTok videos that gained thousands of likes. What a world, what humans do…
　[　https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/sep/27/south-sudan-juba-dinka-child-marriage-athiak-dau-riak-customs-brideprice 2024-09-28　]
　Marriage is a relatively recent institution in our species’ 300,000-plus-years of history, originating perhaps 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, and until quite recently served to bind women to men as property assets, to ensure paternity, and protect the male's lineage among descendants. That puts marriage at ~1–2% of the age of Homo sapiens.
　Regarding bonobos, the animal species with 98.7% of DNA exactly identical to that of human beings:
　「Like humans but unlike chimps and most other animals, bonobos separate sex from reproduction. They seem to treat sex as a pleasurable activity, and they rely on it as a sort of social glue, to make or break all sorts of relationships. 'Ancestral humans behaved like this,' proposes Frans de Waal, an ethologist at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University. 'Later, when we developed the family system, the use of sex for this sort of purpose became more limited, mainly occurring within families [i.e., incest]. A lot of the things we see, like pedophilia and homosexuality, may be leftovers that some now consider unacceptable in our particular society.' 」
　　[　https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/casual-sex-play-common-among-bonobos 2023-05-14　]　
　「A male child of any age, even before birth, could by parental arrangement take an adult woman as a wife. The purpose could be to consolidate family status and relationship, or simply to have someone to help taking care of the child. After marriage, the couple slept in one bed like all other husbands and wives. No one would pay attention to what type of sexual relationship they might have and when. In the normal course of events, they would begin with those sex plays they were capable of and wanted, until one day, when the child was old enough to desire and do it, they had coitus. After the boy grew still older, he usually took a second wife closer to his age, but he would continue to keep, love and respect the first wife. Some writers very vehemently question the capacity of children to give valid consent to sexual activity with adults. Despite their arguments, to the Chinese - who are particularly conscious of the importance and priority of social (and hence adult) values - the focus of discussions on the child consent issue in pedophilic activities is blatantly irrelevant and hypocritical.」
　　[　https://www.ipce.info/library/web-article/pedophilia-chinese-perspective 2019-10-22　]　
　「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
　　[　https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14　]　…see all the related glyphs, and the long list of applicable meanings.
　By turning a blind eye to the age-old, rampant practice of pedophilia, make-believers may choose to interpret these elements as a woman's affection for her own child that is presumed as an innate, natural instinct. Yet, glyphs meaning「mother」or「adult woman」are not used here—left element means「the female sex」of any age. Glyph was composed from the perspective of, by, and for adult males.
　「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　]　
　「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…. Women, their families, and their husbands took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …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 bound feet.」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17　]　but only after the binding cloths were removed, of course.
　「Historical accounts from the 18th century indicate that adult-child sex (particularly same-sex pairings) were an accepted practice in China, Japan, Africa, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the Islamic areas of India (Trumbach, 1977). In 19th century London the going price for a virginal, 12-year-old girl, of good background, was reported to be 400 pounds (Bullough, 1964).」
　　[　https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/legal-social-and-biological-definitions-pedophilia 2012-01-01　]　
　Even the elements as「female rats」may have made the Chinese sages roar with laughter:「Norway rats, roof rats, and house mice are the rodents most commonly found living in close association with man. They are called commensal rodents, referring to the fact that they live at man's expense without giving anything in return. Rats have very high reproductive rates. A pair of rats and their offspring could produce 1,500 more rats in only one year if they all survived. Rats breed at 3 to 5 months of age, carry their young for 21 to 33 days and have 6 to 12 young per litter, and 4 to 7 litters per year. The actual figures within these ranges depend on the availability of food, the density of rats in an area and the age of the female rat. Although one female rat may produce up to 84 young in a year, on the average about 20 young per female per year survive to maturity. Female rats can breed again 1 to 2 days after giving birth. Breeding occurs all year…. Mice mature rapidly and by 1.5 to 2 months of age are old enough to reproduce.」
　　[　now-dead link was https://ipm.ncsu.edu/AG369/notes/commensal_rodents.html 2013-09-09　so instead see　[　https://www.vancouverwildlife.com/rats/rat-facts/　2023-05-18　]　
　And finally,「female rat」meaning TO LIKE others, being ACTIVELY PROSOCIAL:「…the common terms rat and mouse are not taxonomically specific. Generally, when someone discovers a large muroid, its common name includes the term rat, while if it is small, the name includes the term mouse. …A 2011 controlled study found that rats are actively prosocial. They demonstrate altruistic behaviour to other rats in experiments, including freeing them from cages. When presented with readily available chocolate chips, test subjects would first free the caged rat, and then share the food. All female rats in the study displayed this behaviour, while 30% of the males did not.」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat 2013-09-09　]　

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 be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to; good; well; proper; good to; easy to; very; so; (suffix indicating completion or readiness)
Japanese: good, friendly relations, connection, intimacy, excellent, fine, nice, pleasant, agreeable, sufficient, ready, prepared, profitable, beneficial, OK, liking, fondness, love, -phil, -phile, enthusiast, being attractive, to like, to be fond of, frequently, seeming good, having a liking for, popular with, to prefer, by choice, by preference, of one's free will, on purpose, deliberately, intentionally, that's right, very well, it would be best to …, likeable, desirable, to appreciate, to have a preference
Unihan extended: good, excellent, fine; well
EDRDG: fond; pleasing; like something

Used within names (nanori)
こ　･　たか　･　とし　･　よし