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The character 佧 is a relatively modern phono-semantic compound, combining the person radical 亻, which suggests a link to people or ethnic groups, with the phonetic component 卡. It was created to transcribe ethnic names in southwestern China and Southeast Asia, most famously the historical name for the Wa people. Since it functions solely as a phonetic tool for these proper nouns, it has no independent meaning or historical etymology.
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