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The character 孪, with its traditional form 孿, originates from the concept of twins, where the lower component 子 meaning "child" directly relates to this sense. In the traditional structure, the upper component 䜌 primarily functioned phonetically, while the simplified form substitutes this with the component 亦, a graphical reduction. The meaning has centered on twin births or paired entities throughout its usage, with the structural emphasis on 子 consistently anchoring its semantic field.
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