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The character 擀 is a phono-semantic compound denoting the culinary action of rolling out dough with a rolling pin to make foods like noodles or dumpling wrappers. Its left component, the hand radical 扌, signals that the meaning involves a manual action. The right component, 幹, provides the pronunciation, retaining its complex form here even though it is simplified to 干 in other contexts. This character’s meaning is highly specialized, focusing almost exclusively on the domestic task of flattening dough with a specific tool.