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袟 is a phono-semantic compound with the semantic component 衣 (clothing, fabric) on the left and the phonetic 失 on the right. It originally referred to a cloth wrapper or covering for books, scrolls, or documents, similar to a modern book jacket or portfolio. Over time, the character became closely associated and often interchangeable with 帙, which uses the 巾 radical (cloth or towel) instead of 衣 but shares the same phonetic 失 and identical meaning: a cloth document wrapper or a volume of books.
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