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The character 浔 is a phono-semantic compound combining the semantic radical 氵 (shuǐ, water) on the left and the phonetic 寻 (xún, 'to seek') on the right. The traditional form 潯 is written with the unsimplified phonetic 尋 on the right. Its primary meaning is a steep bank along a deep river, a stream edge, or the waterside; it also appears in classical texts to describe a shoreline. Today it serves primarily in geographical names, notably Xunyang (浔阳), an ancient name for the city of Jiujiang, and as an abbreviation for areas along the Xunjiang River in Guangxi.
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