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砜 (fēng) is the simplified form of 碸, a modern phono-semantic compound created to translate Western chemical terms into Chinese. It combines the semantic radical 石 (shí), which generally denotes stone or minerals and is commonly used in modern nomenclature for solid non-metallic compounds, with the phonetic component 风 (fēng), simplified from 風, to indicate pronunciation. The character specifically means a sulfone, an organosulfur compound with a sulfonyl group, and has no historical or alternative meanings outside modern organic chemistry and scientific literature.