Definitions
old variant of 茲|兹[zī]
Etymology
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茊 is a rare phono-semantic compound that once denoted a specific plant or served as a local place name in ancient texts. It is composed of the grass radical 艹 on top, placing it in the semantic field of vegetation, and the component 丘 below, which represents a hill or mound and functions here as the phonetic indicator. Now obsolete, 茊 appears only in specialized historical dictionaries and as a phonetic element in ancient geographic records.
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