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杼 is a phono-semantic compound: 木 (wood) indicates the material, and 予 provides the sound. Its original meaning is the shuttle of a weaving loom, the wooden tool that carries the weft thread horizontally through the warp. The character appears in the idiom 机杼 (loom and shuttle), which metaphorically refers to the structure of a literary composition or the inner workings of a person's thoughts.
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