廊 walkway, passageway, corridor, hallway, porch, veranda 广,郎,

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广

ゲン,× widespread behavior of humans in caves, early human habitations, a cave of wonder

　emphasis on HAND
…or: PALMING, HEAD CONTROL of ERECTION
…or: emphasis on ARRAY of ERECTIONS
…or: emphasis on CLIFF
　

郎

ロウ,リョウ,おとこ son, young man, husband; prostitute; goof-off, hooligan, ne'er-do-well; government minister or official

　UNDISTRACTED in VILLAGE
…or: OPEN-MOUTHED and CONSPICUOUS WHITE DRIPPING beside TWISTING BURROW HOLE FOR SCORPION ENTRY
…or: JUST ONE VAGINA
　

Meanings of elements

NE'ER-DO-WELL and PALMING ERECTION
…or: CAVERN for VILLAGERS
…or: CAVERN of GOOD PUSSY
…or: CAVERN for NE'ER-DO-WELL
…or: CAVERN for GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

「Ne'er-do-well palming erection」as he peeps into rooms from the WALKWAY, PASSAGEWAY, CORRIDOR, PORCH, PORTICO.「Cavern for husband, sons, and government officials」「cavern for ne'er-do-wells」or「cavern of prostitutes.」Formerly referring to the path or CORRIDOR for walking between various areas reserved with matting by working females as professional service providers among and around a large, open cavern or building and the WALKWAYS to move about within. Right internal element is a substitute for「orifice of scorpion burrow, hole for inserting appendages spewing venom」representing the twisting open holes of various working females as professional service providers, a PATHWAY down a slippery slope. Meaning AISLE as an「inner pathway for traffic to a burrow-like vortex orifice.」These AISLES were used ostensibly to either shop for prostitutes while crawling from one to the next in an evening full of adventure and twenty or so flashes, or to search for one's husband, son, or some government official among the mats.
Later on, after the shamans had amassed sufficient wealth to construct pagoda-style towers, temples, and shrines, these walkways were added around the outer edge areas of each floor level to conserve heat in winter, provide shadows in summer, reduce noise and congestion, protect client privacy, provide better scenic views, and so on.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: corridor; veranda; porch
Japanese EDRDG: corridor, hall, tower
Unihan extended: corridor, porch, veranda

Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that), representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system! Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today. Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?

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By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon. This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.