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摭 is a phono-semantic compound: the hand radical (扌) on the left signals a manual action, while the phonetic 庶 on the right supplies the sound and carries the notion of a multitude. Originally, it meant to pick up or gather scattered items. This concrete sense later broadened to the abstract collecting of information, texts, or ideas from multiple sources, and the character now commonly occurs in compounds related to selecting and extracting literary materials.
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