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The character 讫 exists in both a simplified form and a traditional form, 訖. Its structure is composed of the semantic component 言 (speech) combined with the phonetic component 乞. The original meaning of 訖 was specifically "to finish speaking", which later generalized to signify the completion or cessation of any action, a meaning it retains today. The simplification to 讫 maintained this phonetic-phonetic structure by replacing the semantic component 言 with 讠, the simplified radical for speech, while keeping the phonetic component 乞 unchanged.
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