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The character 潆 (traditional 瀠) is a phono-semantic compound: the water radical 氵 indicates water, while the phonetic 萦, meaning 'to entangle' or 'coil', also suggests the swirling motion. This structure captures its meaning, water that swirls, eddies, or flows in spirals. It appears mainly in descriptive or poetic writing to evoke the gentle, rotating movement of streams and small whirlpools. The character is used strictly as a verb or adjective for water dynamics, without straying into other semantic fields.
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