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浣 is a phonosemantic compound: 氵 (water) gives the meaning, while 完 (which typically means 'completion') provides the sound. It originally meant washing or rinsing, particularly laundry in water, and is the simplified form of 澣. In the Tang dynasty, officials had a rest day every ten days for bathing and laundering, so 浣 also came to mean a ten-day period or a third of a month.
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