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The character 菹 is a phono-semantic compound: the semantic plant radical 艹 is positioned at the top, while the lower portion is the phonetic 沮, which combines the water radical 氵 and the component 且. The earliest recorded meaning of this character was a specific kind of food: vegetables that had been pickled, fermented in brine, or finely minced. It also developed a secondary geographical meaning, a marsh or swamp. Both meanings have since become largely archaic and are now found mainly in classical literature.
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