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犄 is a noun for animal horns, or by extension, a corner or projecting angle. It is a phono-semantic compound: the left radical 牛 (ox) denotes the semantic category of horned livestock, and the right element 奇 (jī) gives the pronunciation. The character rarely appears alone; it is almost always used in the colloquial compound 犄角 (jījiǎo). This word refers literally to the horns protruding from an animal's head, or figuratively to a nook, corner, or angular recess in a room or spatial arrangement.
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