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The character 沲 is a phono-semantic compound. Its left side, the water radical 氵, signals a connection to rivers and bodies of water, while the right side, 㐌, acts as the phonetic component. Originally, it referred to a river branch or a stream diverging from a main waterway in classical geographical texts, and it could also serve as a proper noun for specific rivers in historical documents. Today, its use is strictly confined to these specialized literary contexts, and it has not developed any extended or abstract meanings in the modern Chinese lexicon.
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