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The character 襁 is a phono-semantic compound: the semantic component 衤 (a variant of 衣 'clothing') combines with the phonetic 强. Historically, it designated the cloth used in traditional Chinese child-rearing for swaddling an infant or carrying one on the back, a usage now preserved almost exclusively in the compound 襁褓 (swaddling clothes). The character is the simplified form of 繦, which shared the same meaning and structure.
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