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The character "粽", denoting the glutinous rice dumpling called zongzi, combines the semantic component "米" for rice with the phonetic component "宗" to indicate pronunciation, while its traditional form "糉" retains the rice radical but employs "夅" as its phonetic element. Etymologically, the term appears in early Chinese texts specifically for this food, and its meaning has remained exclusively tied to the concept of zongzi without broadening or shifting over time.