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徜 (cháng) is a phono-semantic compound: the walking radical 彳 (chì) on the left indicates movement, and the phonetic 尚 (shàng) on the right supplies the pronunciation. It is almost entirely restricted to the bound binome 徜徉 (chángyáng), which means to wander, roam, or stroll leisurely without a specific destination. The character rarely appears independently in either classical literary contexts or modern vernacular usage; its sense of aimless walking derives entirely from the step radical.
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