Definitions
sleeve opening
Etymology
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The character 袪 is a phono-semantic compound, with the semantic clothing radical 衤 on the left indicating its connection to garments and textiles, and the phonetic component 去 on the right. Its original meaning referred to the sleeve or cuff of a traditional garment. Through phonetic borrowing, it acquired a secondary verbal sense meaning to dispel, drive away, or remove. In contexts involving the removal of something negative, such as illness or misfortune, it functions as a variant of the character 祛.
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