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palate; sausage
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臄 is a phono-semantic compound combining the semantic radical 月, a reduced form of 肉 meaning "flesh", with the phonetic element 豦, which gives the character its reading of "jué". The flesh radical situates it among terms for body parts, and the character refers to the palate, or roof of the mouth, in humans and animals. Its usage throughout history has remained strictly anatomical, found chiefly in medical, biological, and classical culinary texts, with no extension into figurative or metaphorical language.
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