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肙 combines 口 (mouth) with the meat radical ⺼ (written as 月 in this character), depicting a mouth eating a piece of meat to the point of fullness. It is the original form of 䬼, which later assumed this meaning of being satiated. In modern Chinese, 肙 no longer functions independently and survives mainly as a phonetic component in characters like 娟, 捐, and 涓.
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