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挹 (yì) denotes the action of ladling, scooping, or drawing liquids from a larger container using a vessel or dipping implement. It is a phono-semantic compound: the left-side hand radical 扌 (shǒu) signals a manual action, while the right-side component 邑 (yì) indicates the pronunciation. The character appears predominantly in formal writing, classical poetry, and historical texts, where it describes the graceful serving of wine, the drawing of well water, or metaphorical expressions of extracting and managing resources.
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