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buttocks   

Explanation Please note the similarity with: connected rooms 呂

Used in these characters:
JLPT 4Joyo 3
large building, palace, mansion
KAN
Left: eating 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: government 官 (= Under a roof 宀 with straightly connected rooms 呂)
The food from the government is served in a large building.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
chase, pursue, follow
ou, TSUI
Left: movement 辶, right: a pair of buttocks (both cheeks)
(I see him from behind:) his buttocks in movement when I chase or follow him.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
Government, bureaucrat
KAN
Top: roof 宀, below: typically understood as buttocks (both cheeks), but herer better: two connected rooms 呂
Under a roof with straightly connected rooms is the government.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
tube, pipe, control
kuda, KAN
Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: government 官 (Under a roof 宀 with straightly connected rooms 呂 is the government.) - here: a cover 宀 and two tubes 呂 [in cross-section])
Made of bamboo is the cover over the two: pipes.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
teacher, expert, master, reverend
SHI
Commander 帥 (A buttocks in cloth 巾, that's the commander!) and upper right additional: cane 一
A commander with a cane feels like a teacher and expert.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
dispatch, send, use, donate, undertake
tsukau, yaru, KEN
Left: movement 辶, right: center 中, one 一, buttocks (picture!)
From our center (= group) one buttocks shall move: for the dispatching.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
commander, leader
SUI
Left: buttocks (both cheeks), right: cloth 巾
A buttocks in cloth, that's the commander!  
JLPT -Joyo 7
mound, terrestrial, hill
tsukasa, FU,
At top in typical interpretation: buttocks , but here as a variant of: "connected rooms 呂", bottom: ten 十
(Perhaps an anthill?) When connected rooms (with chimney ノ ) are tenfold piled up it is a mount/hill.  

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