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The character 孪 refers to twins or giving birth to multiple children at once. It uses the semantic radical 子 (child) at its base, linking it to offspring. In the traditional form 孿, the upper part is the phonetic component 䜌, which originally suggested entangled or continuous threads, metaphorically evoking the intertwined nature of multiple births. The simplified version 孪 replaces this complex upper part with 亦, a simpler structural stand-in that adds no new phonetic or meaning. Its core sense of twins is consistently applied in medical or biological terms for multiple gestation.
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