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The character 渑 (traditional form 澠) combines the semantic water radical 氵 (shuǐ) with the phonetic component 黾 (mǐn), historically written as 黽. This structure primarily identifies geographical names. It has two pronunciations: read as miǎn, it refers to Mianchi (渑池) in Henan province; read as shéng, it denotes the Sheng River in Shandong. The simplification from 澠 to 渑 streamlined the right component while preserving the core logic of a water indicator paired with a phonetic marker for naming water-related locations.