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The character 捃 is a phono-semantic compound: the hand radical 扌 signals a manual action, while 君 (jūn) provides the pronunciation. Its core meaning, 'to pick up or gather items,' stems directly from the hand radical. Occurring mainly in literary and classical Chinese, it describes the careful accumulation or selection of materials and is not used in everyday spoken vernacular for the general idea of gathering.
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