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痖 is a phono-semantic compound: the enclosing radical 疒 places it in the domain of sickness and disease, while the inner component 亚 (a simplification of 亞) supplies the pronunciation. The traditional form, 瘂, retains the unsimplified 亞. The character's meaning is the medical condition of being mute, having lost one's voice, or suffering from severe hoarseness as a result of illness or physical impairment. This explicitly marks the inability to speak as a physical ailment, not a temporary silence.
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