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崞 is a phono-semantic compound character created solely as a geographical name. The mountain radical 山 on the left indicates its semantic category of elevated terrain, and the phonetic element 郭 (guō) on the right gives the reading. It designates a specific mountain and the historical county that surrounded it, located in modern Shanxi province. Because it serves only as a toponym, the character has no other definitions, descriptive uses, or metaphorical meanings, and is absent from general vocabulary, appearing only in historical geography and regional maps.
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