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腙 is a modern phono-semantic compound created for organic chemistry to represent the term hydrazone. It is constructed with the left-side semantic radical 月, historically meaning 'flesh' or 'meat' but repurposed in scientific Chinese to indicate organic compounds, and the right-side phonetic component 宗, which supplies the pronunciation. Because it was coined as a specialized translation, the character has no classical history, functioning solely as the precise technical name for a specific class of organic compounds containing a carbon-nitrogen double bond derived from hydrazine.
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