牧 herding animals, keeping a herd, animal husbandry, to breed meat assets; government control, to govern 牜,攵,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ボク
BO　KU

Kun-yomi

まき
ma　ki

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

牜

× cattle, beef meat, important thing, herded meat stock, animal husbandry, a cash cow, female animals providing milk and meat, animals as a store of future value and medium of exchange

　HEAD with TALENT
…or: USE TWO HANDS on HEAD
…or: HEAD on ROD VERTICAL TWICE
　

攵

ホク,× goad, coerce, force, incite action, prostrate and stroking, whacking

　SUPINE with PETTING CROSSING MOTION
…or: WHACKED and PROSTRATED
　

Meanings of elements

CATTLE, HERDED MEAT STOCK, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY and COERCE, FORCE, INCITE ACTION, PROSTRATE AND STROKING, WHACKING

「Cattle forced, inciting」as HERDING and BREEDING with animals, TO GOVERN. Eunuchs as GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS raising and training the lord's「meat assets」by herding as needed, his harem chattel as「herd animal that incites action.」Concubines kept in pens as a herd of meat assets are often likened in glyphs to sacrificial meat, animals whose lives have been sacrificed when sold on behalf of their family, forming a sub-human class.

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 herd; to breed livestock; to govern (old); government official (old)
Japanese: pasture, grazing land
Unihan extended: tend cattle, shepherd
EDRDG: breed; care for; shepherd; feed; pasture

Used within names (nanori)
ま　･　まい　･　もく

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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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.