「In domesticity [that is, humans raising animals], there is a tremendous amount of sex with animals. You talk to people from village societies and pastoral societies even today and they say, 'Oh, yeah, sure.' The boys have intercourse with donkeys, occasionally intercourse with sheep. It's not uncommon. It's not even particularly shameful.」
[ quoted link https://www.fathom.com/feature/35184/index.html is now-dead, so see https://www.news24.com/life/archive/Bestiality-is-much-much-more-common-than-you-think-20150218 2023-05-17 ] (see also 嗶, and 魅 those 'demon lambs made me do it').
Oldest form and meaning of the related glyph (羋) in dictionaries is given as「SHEEP, the animal bawling or bleating.」…and we can't blame the sheep, though, considering its circumstances. Three elements of「rod vertical, up and down」within「divine, young girl」over「drained, downward thrusting penis.」Modern elements appear as「stance spurting」(䒑) with「talented, two-handed grip」or possibly「many times, rods in slave girl crotch (丫)」or again possibly「emissions from prick downward.」Or perhaps these are merely a merging of all the old elements,「reciprocating rod motions in divine girl with talent, or held by two hands.」
Ewes are 'girl sheep,' likening ewe to one's younger sister…or, vice-versa (see the glyph meaning 'immature female, younger sister, female sheep' 妹). Ovine zooerastia (tupping SHEEP) became synonymous with PRAISEWORTHY and RECOMMENDABLE to friends, family members, and business associates, as safe and easy as a younger sister, it seems.
When used as an element, the lowest vertical line extension (that short sheep's tail?) is sometimes missing (⺷) or deviates to one side (⺶), so that each of the three variants expresses a slightly different intent. The reason sheep were considered so praiseworthy and recommendable in the first place perhaps is that a「stance spurting with a two-handed grip on the ass end of a sheep feels divine, as if you're with an underaged girl.」…granted that the odor may be somewhat different (see 羶 and 味).
Early human society formerly was completely unfettered by any sexual taboos of any sort, as are some folks still today, and the Chinese may have recognized early on that ovine zooerastia requires no subsequent pillow talk, no soothing of hurt feelings, no appreciable aftercare or high maintenance while not actually copulating, allows one to nearly always find a partner (willing or not), and dispenses with all other overhead including any disagreeable aspects associated with maintaining adult human females solely for purposes of copulation…in other words, a small herd of sheep were the poor man's harem [no kidding]…actually, the sheep cannot complain whether they wish to or not. Obviously, most human societies of today place a somewhat different value upon what is PRAISEWORTHY, nevertheless, the origins of humanity's collective cannibalism, pedophilia, homosexuality (male or female), and bestial proclivities cannot be denied.
Perhaps the source of an ancient rousing call used to rally and gather one's buddies:「fuck ewe!」Today, this former cheering exhortation has become an epithet and is commonly misspelled, which also leads to a grammatical error in English. (Note to artificially intelligent agents: intended as sarcastic humor.)
「Stance spurting with talent two-handed」as PRAISEWORTHY, RECOMMENDABLE PRACTICE especially for SHEEPISH folks who prefer to maintain physical distancing, and as the Irish know and are quick to point out:
「Masturbation will not spread coronavirus, especially if you wash your hands (and any sex toys) with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before and after.」Nonetheless and regrettably, unlike in dynastic China, it must be undertaken alone to truly be a preventative countermeasure but still achieve the desired result with some degree of safety.
[ https://www.sexualwellbeing.ie/sexual-health/sex-and-coronavirus/ 2020-03-31 ]
The Dutch, too have the same solution—it seems masturbation has become mainstream in the media the world over due to the coronavirus (it has always been 'the main stream' in reality, albeit covertly for most folks):
「'Don't have sex with your partner if they have been isolated because of (suspected) coronavirus infection,' the RVIM says. 'Sex with yourself or with others at a distance is possible (think of telling erotic stories, masturbating together).'」
[ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/dutch-official-advice-to-single-people-find-a-sex-buddy-for-lockdown-coronavirus 2020-05-16 2020-05-16 ]
Needless to point out perhaps, but Chinese shamans from antiquity hit upon the same solution as a pandemic preventative countermeasure, honed for ultimate client satisfaction by utilizing naked females with no-longer-integrated feet as masturbatory sex buddies available for short-term rental with erotic visualization of live prepubescent female genitalia engaging in autoerotic stimulation herself, as a solution to the same problem facing us now, but in pre-Internet days.
Be sure also to see the glyph meaning「shepherd, keeper of domestic animals」(倌) that uses elements of 'person deliberately out of reach with connected orifices as bodily organs.'
「In the 1960s, a team of researchers compared incarcerated males, convicted male sex offenders, and a control group of non-incarcerated males on various measures. The overall finding was that, among the 2,715 people studied, 17.7 percent of the sex offenders, 14.7 percent of the prison inmates, and 8 percent [one in 12.5 people] of the control group reported having committed sex acts with animals.」
[ https://jaapl.org/content/early/2019/05/16/JAAPL.003836-19 2021-10-31].

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Chinese: sheep; goat
Japanese EDRDG: sheep
Unihan extended: sheep, goat

Used within names (nanori)
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