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聍 (traditional form 聹) is a phono-semantic compound: the left-side radical 耳 (ear) establishes the semantic domain of the ear, and the right-side component 宁 (traditional 寧) indicates its pronunciation. The character is virtually always encountered as a bound morpheme in the formal medical term 耵聍, which means cerumen or earwax. It was coined specifically to provide a precise written form for this ear-related secretion, and as a result, it has never developed any extended, figurative, or standalone meanings. Throughout its lexical history, 聍 has functioned exclusively as a specialized anatomical and clinical term.
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