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The character 僬 is a phono-semantic compound with the radical 亻 (rén, human) indicating its semantic category and the component 焦 (jiāo) providing its phonetic value. It is not used independently in modern language but appears exclusively in the compound 僬侥 (jiāoyáo), which denotes a legendary race of diminutive people described in classical texts such as the Shan Hai Jing. The human radical thus classifies the term as referring to a type of person or mythical tribe.