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The character 渖, simplified from 瀋, is a phono-semantic compound. Its left component, the water radical 氵 (shuǐ), provides the semantic category of liquids, while the right component 审 (shěn) indicates the pronunciation. Historically, it primarily denoted juice from vegetables or broth from meat, functioning as a noun for natural extracts. Although the traditional form 瀋 serves as the abbreviation for Shenyang, the character's core meaning remains tied to biological fluids, as signaled by the water radical.
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