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囿 is a phono-semantic compound in which the radical 囗, depicting a walled enclosure, surrounds the phonetic 有 (yǒu) to give the sound yòu. Originally it referred to a royal park, garden, or hunting ground where animals and plants were kept within bounds. From this literal bounded space, the meaning broadened into a verb: to confine, limit, or constrain, and it is now often applied to intellectual or ideological narrowness.
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