「Bent, shortened arm」or「loose and dripping, cloud of stench, rancid odor」with「lame, copulation」as to grant LICENSE to do, PERMIT, give permission, ALLOW and CONSENT to foot binding and later consent to copulation with those no-longer-integrated feet (「lame for short legs」). Concepts of ALLOW AS A COURTESY, ALLOW IN FAIRNESS suggests that this decision was reached due to a 'keeping up with the neighbors attitude' and to show one's daughter was as good as others, pride:「By the 19th century, some 40–50% of Chinese women had bound feet. For upper class women, the figure was almost 100%.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2013-02-18 ]
SINCERELY PERMIT is suggestive of the desire of the father to consummate a profitable future sale, and to participate in the training. A painful procedure that hobbled a girl and inhibited the ability to walk somewhat, by whacking and bending the arch of each foot until the bones were broken in the toes and arches, binding the feet in a shape that would make them much smaller and useful as surrogate copulatory orifices by wrapping the meat of the feet around the meat of a penis. The fact that the always-bound feet began to stink (just a little) due to the bacterial colonization of the folds in the foot flesh and the snobbish air these females later exhibited might account for the elements「enveloped in stench cloud with copulation.」In some Chinese forms of this glyph, rather than「bent legs, copulating」the element for「emit」appears as SNORTED OUT OF the nostrils (not up, or into, as is more common today), either due to an odiferous content, or, perhaps snobbery and pride.
Foot binding most likely was performed initially to prevent the girls from escaping, and to make the girls easier to catch and schtup, since they couldn't run away too fast and by giving the girl an excuse not to bother trying to escape. Every girl was likely exposed to all sorts of sex long prior to puberty, and CONSENTING girls and dads knew exactly what they were doing when opting to undergo this treatment that changed her into a human being worthwhile for only sexual purposes. Certainly not every girl who had her feet no-longer-integrated made this choice, and some surely were forced, but a girl would choose the life of becoming a chunk of meat for sex with a rich man perhaps after considering the other possible opportunities for a woman at the time, to wit: becoming a slave, a prostitute, or low-class serf working in the fields all day, every day. Foot-bound girls became concubines for wealthy men, and enjoyed a lifestyle better than most alternatives for women, in exchange for sex of any kind on demand. It was the fact of choosing a life of giving and receiving sexual gratification as her first priority that made her attractive, and not likely her foot odor, nor the grotesque shape of her mauled and maimed feet.

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Chinese: just; fair; to permit; to allow
Japanese EDRDG: license, sincerity, permit
Unihan extended: to grant, to allow, to consent

Used within names (nanori)
まこと　･　のぶ　･　まさ　･　みつ　･　すけ　･　よし　･　ちか　･　とも