So, why do some folks throw dry rice grains at a wedding? the custom represents a symbol of fertility: seeds, spermatozoa. In Asia,「rice」is a euphemism for any food or meal (see 飯). Whenever rice is eaten, where does it end up, and in what condition? (see 屎, this glyph inside「buttocks」for the surprising answer). Elements as「emit twisting, screwing emit」suggesting to emit in all directions, which is exactly what happens when grains are poured onto a solid surface, or heads of rice grain stalks are rubbed hard and twisted between one's palms while threshing. As a stand-alone glyph, meaning RICE AS HARVESTED GRAINS, MANY SEEDS together in one place.
　As an element within other glyphs, often does not refer to rice grains at all, but instead to a STICKY MASS or BLOB. anyone who has ever cooked Asian sticky rice in a pot will understand the uncanny similarity of the odor emanating from that rice pot with freshly ejaculated semen; heated and cooked rice in the Orient is very sticky, or else it cannot easily be lifted using chopsticks.
　In some fonts, appears as「woody」with「emit」the same as 'grain plant' (禾) but with the tip of grain removed and replaced by「emitted」that may suggest the head of grain was removed and the seed grains harvested.「Array of sticky fluids」(氺) something SPLATTED when rubbed hard between one's palms or clapped with force, sending「emissions fully in all directions」or「screwing emissions」or「emissions with a woody」(again, see 屎), and so sometimes refers to a PUCKERED orifice per the glyph's actual shape, similar to one's lips and mouth while eating a lemon or something astringent, or kissing perfunctorily.
　Based upon some traditional fonts, the original elements may have at one time been「emit from tops of cannabis plants」or perhaps「sticky array.」Gathering and ingesting sticky cannabis buds and seeds was extant among humans thousands of years prior to rice cultivation, and hemp seeds are still eaten commonly today in Asia (in Japan, a component of shichimi).
　Also means AMERICA only because of pronunciation say the scholars, having nothing to do with jism splatting, sticky fecal material or other sticky matter, rice grains, cannabis, or the puckering of various body parts…yet, who knows? perhaps related to a「yankee」as described in the glyph 縠, as contrasted with a yanker: the tune「Yankee Doodle Dandy」formerly was a derogatory ditty sung by British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War as a taunt that described the rebellious Americans as slut-chasing jerk-offs, later converted by those same jerks as a victory song, since if ragtag jerk-offs could defeat the pride of the British and the greatest fighting force in the world at the time, what does that say about King George's army?

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: rice; meter (classifier)
Japanese: rice, America, U.S.A., metre, meter, gauge
Unihan extended: hulled or husked uncooked rice
EDRDG: rice; U.S.A.; metre

Used within names (nanori)
は　･　べ　･　まべ　･　め　･　よ　･　よな　･　よの　･　よま