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protuberant eyes
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The character 睅 is a phono-semantic compound. Its left side, the semantic radical 目 (eye), anchors the meaning in the domain of vision or ocular features, while the right side, the phonetic component 旱, indicates the pronunciation. Historically, this character described a specific physical trait: large, prominent, or bulging eyes. Its definition remains narrowly focused on this anatomical detail, without extending to abstract emotional or visual concepts. It appears mainly in ancient literature as a descriptive term for physical appearance.
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