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佤 is a phono-semantic compound with the human radical 亻 on the left (indicating people or ethnic groups) and the phonetic component 瓦 on the right. It is used exclusively as the name of the Wa people, an ethnic group inhabiting the mountainous regions of southwestern China and Southeast Asia. This pattern of combining the human radical with a phonetic is a standard way to transcribe ethnic and indigenous names in Chinese, so 佤 has no other lexical or abstract meanings.
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