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栲 is a phono-semantic compound combining the wood radical 木 on the left with the phonetic 考 on the right. It names several species of trees in the Castanopsis genus, commonly called chinquapin or evergreen chinkapin. Historically, the wood was used for furniture and to extract tannins for dyeing. The character has no traditional or simplified variant, straightforwardly pairing a botanical classifier with a phonetic to denote this timber-producing tree.
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