Left: cloths 衤/衣, right: monarch,master 君 (Here: hand with needle ノ and circumferential closed 口 skirt [cross-sectional view])
This clothing made with a needle in a hand and is circumferentially closed: The skirt!

Left: monarch, master 君 (He strikes with a stick ノ in a hand on a mouth 口), right: sheep 羊 (The horned 丷 animal with a backbone 丨 and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is the: sheep)
If a monarch has sheep, then a flock.

Top: 尹 (A hand holding a stick ノ), below: mouth 口
The one with a stick in his hand strikes on somebody`s mouth, because he is: the master/lord.

Left: hole, cavity 穴 (It is covered 宀 and a narrowing path 八 leads into the cave), right: monarch/lord 君 (He strikes with a stick ノ in a hand on a mouth 口)
When you report about the hole to the lord, you are: distressed.

Left: monarch, lord 君 (He strikes with a stick ノ in the hand on a mouth 口), right: village ⻏
The lord and the village determine the county.