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甓 is a classical word for fired clay brick, used in ancient construction and paving. A phono-semantic compound, it combines the semantic component 瓦 ('tile/pottery'), marking it as ceramic or baked earth, with the phonetic 辟 (pì). It appears in early texts like the Book of Odes, reflecting ancient masonry. Now obsolete in everyday language, it has been replaced by 砖 (zhuān) and survives only in classical, historical, or architectural contexts. It has no simplified form.
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