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喁 combines the mouth radical (口) on the left, signaling an oral action, with the phonetic element 禺 on the right. Its original meaning was the act of fish rising to the water's surface to breathe with mouths agape, a strikingly descriptive term. Over time, in literary usage, it broadened to describe people echoing or responding to one another, often found in classical works to portray voices answering in agreement or following a speaker's lead.
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