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The character 荛, with its traditional form 蕘, consists of the grass radical 艹 and the phonetic component 尧, derived from 堯. Its etymology points to coarse plants or brushwood used for fuel, and the meaning also encompassed the act of collecting such materials. In classical contexts, it denoted firewood or fodder, and the simplification altered the phonetic element while the grass radical provides a semantic connection to vegetation.
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