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The character 薷 is a highly specific noun, naming a particular aromatic herb in the mint family. Its structure is a phono-semantic compound: the grass radical 艹 (cǎo) indicates the plant category, while 需 (xū) gives the sound. The character is almost entirely restricted to the compound 香薷 (xiāngrú), which refers to a medicinal plant long used in traditional herbal formulations.
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