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The character 籴 signifies the purchase of grain or the hoarding of essential foodstuffs. Its structure is semantic: 入 (a house or storehouse) sits above 米 (rice/grain), depicting grain stored within a building. The traditional form 糴 added the phonetic component 翟 (dí), which the simplified character discards, leaving a purely ideographic compound. 籴 is the antonym of 粜 (to sell grain) and appears in contexts of agricultural economics and staple-crop storage.
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