lowly, the country, the countryside, be countrified
鄙 centers on a sense of rustic, unsophisticated lowliness: the countryside, being countrified, or something considered lowly or crude.
鄙 combines 啚 (likely a phonetic component with a meaning related to a granary or storehouse) and ⻏ (village). The compound suggests a remote, rustic settlement, hence the meanings of countryside and lowliness.
The left side 啚 looks like a humble storehouse, and the right side ⻏ is a village. Picture a simple, countrified village with a lowly granary, far from the city.
For ヒ, imagine a rustic villager saying 'Hee-haw!' like a donkey, emphasizing the countrified, lowly feel: hee -> ヒ.
hard to reach place; remote place
to be rustic; to be countrified; to have a rural feel
town and country
countryside; rural areas
rustic; rural; countrified
countryfolk; villager; provincial
one's own thought; one's own idea
appearing rustic
folk song
vulgar expression; vulgarism; language used in rural areas
vulgar proverb; popular saying
to be far away from the city; to be remote