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渑 (traditional: 澠) is primarily a proper noun for geographical names. It is composed of the water radical 氵 on the left and the phonetic component 黾, historically written as 黽. Pronounced miǎn, it refers to the historical Mianxi county (渑池) in modern Henan; pronounced shéng, it names the Sheng River in Shandong. The simplification from 澠 to 渑 replaced the complex 黽 with the streamlined 黾, while the fundamental structure, a water radical combined with a phonetic to designate water bodies or places, remained unchanged.
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