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The character 喁 uses the mouth radical (口) on the left to indicate a mouth-related action, with 禺 on the right providing the phonetic element. Originally, it described the specific visual of fish surfacing to breathe with open mouths, serving as a vivid naturalistic term. In literary contexts, its meaning extended to describe people echoing or responding to each other, often appearing in classical texts to depict voices agreeing or following a speaker’s lead.
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