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箢 (yuān) is a phono-semantic compound designating a woven bamboo basket traditionally used to hold garbage, dust, or agricultural materials. The semantic radical 竹 (zhú) sits at the top, indicating the basket's bamboo construction. Beneath it, the phonetic 宛 (yuǎn) supplies the pronunciation. The character commonly appears in classical compound words for a dustpan or large carrying basket, firmly rooted in domestic and agricultural life. Its structure encapsulates the object it represents by pairing the material radical with a phonetic marker.
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