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沭 is a proper noun naming the Shu River, which flows through Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. It is a phono-semantic compound: the water radical 氵 provides the semantic category, while 术 (shù) indicates the pronunciation. As a toponym, its meaning has always remained restricted to this river, without developing any metaphorical extensions. The character consists solely of these two components and has no simplified variant, keeping the same form across all writing standards.
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