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The character 涪 (fú) is a left-right phono-semantic compound. The left radical 氵 (shuǐ), a form of 水 'water', marks it as relating to rivers or bodies of water. The right component 咅 (pǒu), which means a unit of measurement or spitting, supplies the sound. It is used exclusively as a proper noun for the Fuling River, a major Yangtze tributary in China's Sichuan Basin and Chongqing municipality, and frequently appears in local place names such as Fuling district along its banks.
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