「Hibiscus stamens」resemble penile erections, and「lotus」plants have a long taproot with hollow shafts that only grow when deeply embedded in wetland muck slurry. Elements combine in various ways to explain gaining control over society using sex as the weapon, including elements of「processed skin with changed shape and control turned over to another's two hands with expulsions」within the no-longer-integrated feet of dynastic Chinese sexual service providers as depicted in erotic Chinese art:「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …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 [no-longer-integrated] bound feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17　]　
　Other creative element combinations are possible, naturally, depending upon the font used, and the pundits claim other elements of this glyph include「yellow clay loam」from which the Yellow River was named (see the variant 堇), and「violets, smother by density」(菫).
　「Flow stifling, flow of yellow clay and soil, flow like violets」that is CHINA (top element is either「twenty」or「plants, emerging shafts」and varies by font).「Stifling, suffocating, unrelenting propagation and growth」due to the way violets take over a garden uncontrollably with their root systems, and, the manner that the silt and clay from the flooding of the Yellow River finds its way into every possible space to smother and stifle surrounding farmland. Violets are considered as weeds in most locales and will grow to cover the entire nearby ground if unchecked, stifling whatever else may be growing beside in an ever-widening concentric circle radiating from the center. The glyph「center」being an abbreviated form to express the meaning「China」as a country. This methodology of dominating one's nearest surrounding neighbors and then assimilating their land into what is today referred to as China is well-known by historians as the manner in which China conquered its neighbors and grew in influence.
　「Juxtaposed orifices with hollow stem shaft filled with sticky whitish creamy schmutz」or elements as「twenty or so」(廿) from「vulva, rod within orifices」(中) and「compulsorily employed, conscripted labor」(夫) describes the life of dynastic Chinese service providers sold into sexual slavery and females viewed as commodities, goods for sale (品, with three marketable orifices). 5,000 years ago, humans had an average life expectancy of only 30-35 years, and if birthing once per year beginning at puberty, the average female bore about twenty or so bastards during her lifetime, with「bastards」being the appropriate term since no one could ever be called monogamous in those days, and paternity was unknowable. Copulation with the females initially being the role of the alpha「adult males」only, as it is with most other primates and large mammals. Human females on the contrary, like bonobos, were copulating with adult males from an early age likely long prior to puberty as soon as they could spread their legs, and thereafter giving birth each year as soon as they could again spread their legs. Note that transforming approximately half of the female population into meat intended solely to be used for copulation by dis-integrating and binding their feet will tend to increase any population unchecked, causing it to spread and smother all surroundings.
　Note that Chinese sources count 14 glyph strokes, but Japanese only 13 strokes since the topmost element merged. Some browsers will not display this glyph using certain fonts…the actual glyph may possibly be seen within other glyphs as an element.

External source definitions
none located, and you ought to ask yourself, why not?
definition speculated from combining the elements, or, from usage in other glyphs