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The character 绋 historically denotes a thick rope or hawser, specifically the heavy ropes used for pulling a funeral bier or towing large boats. It is a phono-semantic compound: the silk radical "纟" on the left indicates its material connection to textiles and cordage, while the right component "弗" provides the phonetic pronunciation. Its traditional form, 紼, uses the unsimplified silk radical "糹" with the same phonetic element. Due to its association with funeral rites and specialized hauling tasks, 绋 has retained a narrow semantic scope, appearing mainly in historical accounts, classical literature on burial customs, and texts about ancient rigging and transport.
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