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攉 is a phono-semantic compound: the left side is the hand radical 扌, indicating a manual action, while the right side is 霍, which means "motion" and simultaneously gives the pronunciation. Together they point to the act of shoveling, scooping up, or turning over loose substances, soil, grain, building materials, with a spade or shovel. The character often describes the continuous, sweeping or mixing motion needed to shift such materials. It appears mainly in texts about agriculture, earth-moving, and construction, where it functions as a manual labor verb.
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