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祦 is a rare phono-semantic compound character historically meaning blessing, happiness, or divine favor. Its structure combines the radical 礻 ('spirit/altar') on the left, which anchors it within the semantic realm of religious ceremonies, spiritual veneration, and ancestral worship, with the phonetic component 吳 on the right, which solely indicates its traditional pronunciation. The character appears almost exclusively in classical texts and historical dictionaries devoted to ancient rituals and auspicious terminology, never entering common usage or acquiring modern secondary meanings.
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