Rice paddies 田 originally were cavities cut into hillsides, lined with clay 土 to prevent drainage, and filled with soil/fecal (both as 土) slurry and water, an INTERNAL LINING within SOIL WALLS. Note however, that rice paddies in rural areas were not the first use of humans within soil walls, and this glyph may very well have been depicting a different concept initially. After abandoning communal life in caverns, many early human groupings lived in pits, or holes dug into the sides of hills, much like burrowing scorpions.「Orifice in soil, filled」by its inhabitants. Refers to BEING INSIDE, the INTERIOR and INTERNAL, and the SOIL WALLS LINING INSIDE, all meanings associated with an inhabited, filled burrow in soil.
Undeniably, for every human in the past prior to modern science,「prick in orifice」「prick within spread legs」described ONE'S ORIGINS, BIRTHPLACE, and also describe the prostitution district in the early days prior to foot dis-integrating in China, as might have「fecal orifice」or a「hard-bodied rod plowing in cavity」of one sort or another. Apart from the obvious meaning,「hard-bodied rod, plowing in soil cavity」also described the manner in which a felled wooden log with tapered tip was pulled by a horse and used to break up soil prior to planting a dry field, with the comparison being intuitively obvious.
「Soil with muck orifice(s)」as being INSIDE a PARTITION, LOW WALL often made of soil located within a town or city in the old days, used to delineate the red-lined PROSTITUTION districts from other areas, not to neglect any mention of the LOW SOIL WALL as a result of impacting and compacting that occurs with a「prick in muck orifice.」Low walls and INNER partitions are not designed as defenses against invading armies, particularly when located inside a town. Low walls are designed to restrict the motions of townsfolk and occasional visitors, routing them toward the gateways where government patrols awaited to conduct mandatory medical inspections, measure the degree of symptoms, collect fees and bribes, constructed as a countermeasure implemented after rampant infectious pandemics of sexually transmitted disease occurred.
「Plugging orifice」of「night soil, feces, anally」「the dirt path」as the pathway to get inside, to get back home to one's birthplace between soil walls and also refers to BEING INSIDE, the INTERIOR, INTERNAL, the WALLS INSIDE marking the 'specialized zone' of a town. Perhaps contributed to the association of sex with dirt in English.
Some say that「filled orifice」and「soil, ground」combine to depict old MEASURES of both linear distance and area of land, but these amounts vary between China and Japan, and between ancient and modern systems. The density of habitations within this measured area determined whether the population density of PIT HOLE HOMES was large enough to be considered a HAMLET and therefore to begin governmental administration.
HAMLET gave birth to the idea of FOSTERING care, a HOMETOWN as the place of one's birth. Note that formerly farms and crop fields were positioned up the side of terraced slopes, so explanations of this glyph as rice paddies on the ground may not be historically accurate at least when humans first began agriculture, and even today most folks still do not live within rice paddies for some fairly obvious reasons, preferring houses on drier, more solid land and fewer mosquitoes instead.
Refers to a VILLAGE that is not always some remote place way out in the countryside, but also are special districts, zones, quarters within a larger city or town, often in the old days marked by surrounding walls with SOIL SLOPES and gateways as checkpoints, restricted entryways, a self-contained city area as a separate community having its own specialized business establishments that cater to a specific kind or class of patron, but also its own local laws, government regulations, customs, and even language at times that apply within an administrative division at the local government level, with police patrols and brute squads as enforcers.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里; lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裡|里; li (Chinese mile); 500 meters (modern); home; hometown; village; neighborhood; administrative unit
Japanese EDRDG: ri, village, parent's home, league
Unihan extended: unit of distance; village; lane

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