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The character 汜 (sì) refers to a minor stream or channel that diverges from a main river and later rejoins it. It is a phono-semantic compound: the water radical 氵 (shuǐ) on the left indicates its category of rivers and water features, while the phonetic component 己 (jǐ) on the right provides the pronunciation. Due to its specialized meaning, 汜 is rarely used in modern language, appearing mainly in classical texts on geography or historical river systems and in certain ancient place names.
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