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怃 conveys disappointment, regret, or a sense of startled blankness. A phono-semantic compound, it combines the heart radical 忄 (xīn), indicating emotions, with the phonetic element 无 (wú); the traditional form 憮 uses 無 instead. Historically, it describes a quiet, dazed emotional reaction, a feeling of emptiness or melancholy following an unexpected event or realization.
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