「King」with a marker stroke to indicate where on the king the reference is: the SPHERICAL GEMS and JEWELS hanging down from his midsection (see 珏), i.e., the testicles as the source of「pearl drops.」Jewels worn by a Chinese king or emperor on a crown were suspended and hanging, dangling to attract and scatter light refraction for added sparkle. Emphasis marker on the lower part of the「king」referring to his jewels, gems, golden balls, testicles. Literally meaning「arrayed (with emphasis marker) beside night soil seam of flesh」and refers to all male animals, not only kings (dogs, boars, humans, and so on) that have balls dangling and hanging within a scrotum below the anus. Be sure to see all the related glyphs.
　Significantly, elements also display the SOURCE OF PEARLS used in Chinese euphemistically to represent droplets of ejaculated semen, and not without reason. The many references to female entertainers need no explanation. English term mother-of-pearl seems to relate conception and motherhood with semen being smeared on an inner surface of mollusc shells as a cavity with two sets of lips (see 貝, the goal of emissions). May relate to various expressions such as: a king's palace or kingdom with pearly gates as entry into the divine, dying and going to heaven (with the sequence of activities reversed, however). Pearls of wisdom falling from lips. Casting one's pearls before swine (see 豕 referring also to an obese harem concubine). Clearly described as PEARLY DROPS in many other glyphs while engaged in mammary intercourse, coitus between a squeezed teat [tit] set with those many pearly drops of semen in flight becoming necklaces, ear adornments, and a horrendous nuisance in head hair likened to「falling tree blossom」petals blown by the breeze.
　「Throughout much of recorded history, a natural pearl necklace comprised of matched spheres was a treasure of almost incomparable value, in fact the most expensive jewelry in the world. …Before the creation of cultured pearls in the early 1900s, natural pearls were so rare and expensive that they were reserved almost exclusively for the noble and very rich. A jewelry item that today's working women might take for granted, a 16-inch strand of perhaps 50 pearls, often costs between $500 and $5,000. At the height of the Roman Empire, when pearl fever reached its peak, the historian Suetonius wrote that the Roman general Vitellius financed an entire military campaign by selling just one of his mother's pearl earrings.」
　　[　https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/history-pearls/ 2022-01-21　]　

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: jade
Japanese: precious stone, egg, stock or security being traded, product being bought or sold, position, geisha, time charge for a geisha, king, ball, sphere, globe, orb, bead, drop, droplet, pile, bullet, bulb, lens, gem, jewel, pearl, female entertainer, person, character, item, funds or person used as part of a plot, coin, beautiful, excellent, branch of a sacred tree with paper or cotton strips attached, sakaki
Unihan extended: jade, precious stone, gem
EDRDG: jewel; ball

Used within names (nanori)
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