town in Shandong province
鄍 is a rare kanji that refers to a specific place name: a town in Shandong province. It has no broader conceptual center beyond this geographical reference.
鄍 combines the village radical ⻏ with 冥, which likely provides the sound. The exact historical development is uncertain, but it is a typical phono-semantic compound for a place name.
The left side 冥 suggests darkness or obscurity, and the right side ⻏ is the village radical. Picture a remote, obscure town in Shandong—so small it feels hidden in the shadows.
For ベイ, imagine a bay town in Shandong: bay -> ベイ, and the obscure village sits quietly by the water.