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The character 漭 is a phono-semantic compound formed by the water radical 氵 on the left, which signals its connection to water, and the phonetic 莽 (mǎng) on the right, a character that originally means 'thick vegetation'. It is used to convey vastness or boundlessness, particularly of wide-open bodies of water such as oceans or vast lakes, and later came to poetically describe any limitless, immeasurable space. 漭 has no simplified variant and remains relatively common in literary and poetic contexts.
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