It is a telling significance that the elements selected to depict DEALINGS, the PROFIT MOTIVE, engaging in BARTERING and TRADING, a COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION as any sort of BUSINESS with「emphasis on rod emissions and stud services copulating within vagina.」…or「maintaining control of emissions with copulation orifice in spread legs」to be the first profession that evolved in the course of human civilization historically. Note that the initial services provided were centered around the three natural orifices, but after it was realized that shared contact with mucous membranes was the source of spreading pathogenic colonizing among participants rather than curses from the gods or magic spells, it was only later that the clever dynastic Chinese turned to peddling foot-dis-integrating with masturbation services as the main event (see erotic Chinese art for many examples). It is further noteworthy that the English word PEDDLING literally means「doing feet」in some form or another.
　「Palm, hand in control of emissions and vaginal copulation」as someone SELLING SERVICE PROVIDERS and related short-term rentals. Or, merges「standing swollen erection」with「copulation」inside an「orifice within spread legs」indicating penetration during sexual intercourse or other such「stud service, pimping」activities. Represents the world's oldest profession, the first and foremost BUSINESS DEALINGS of humanity, that of TRADING or SELLING sexual services:「control of rod emissions spurting upward with stud services, breeding, flashing brilliance, clearly obvious, self-evident, easy to understand, intuitively plain and simple, no doubt, unquestionable.」
　Most businesses today are operated solely with the PROFIT MOTIVE in mind, unfortunately, so it can be argued that this glyph is still appropriate in modern times to represent all sorts of PLACES OF BUSINESS and not exclusively sex shops. Other glyphs mainly used today for a PLACE OF BUSINESS refer directly to the various services offered by shamans, with the intended meanings of 'cavern of soothing prepubescence, raised rod with orifice' (店) offered for short-term rentals or outright sale in the dual roles of professional witch, doctor, and cocotte operator, a place to find the 'utmost genitals' (屋) or 'buttocks array loose, dripping, and soiled' and so on.
　QUOTIENT formerly meant one's quota or share, and in the case of this glyph in light of the elements, a particular shaman's share of the sex trade. Price-fixing and monopolistically dividing markets or territories among cooperating rival competitors during CONSULTATION arrangements of exclusivity for each designated business did not begin with the mafia don families. This common business practice from antiquity assured that all the shamans and each cave o' wonder received an appropriate QUOTIENT of BUSINESS DEALINGS from the community, which in turn maximized rebate and bribe payments to the governing feudal lord: determining the「surrounding outer edges established for copulation in vagina」while noting that the perimeters of these gerrymandered red-lined areas were delineated from antiquity to prevent lower prices from competition long prior to the age of foot-dis-integrating, a time in antiquity when men still copulated into prostituted vaginas in China, and did not simply masturbate into the pulverized foot of a naked nine-year-old girl.

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: commerce; to consult; quotient; 2nd note in pentatonic scale; the Shang dynasty, 16th to 11th century BC
Japanese: quotient, dealing, dealer, store, second degree, Shang, trade, business, trading, to trade in, to deal in, to sell
Unihan extended: commerce, business, trade
EDRDG: make a deal; selling; dealing in; merchant

Used within names (nanori)
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