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The character 讫 is the simplified version of 訖, a phono-semantic compound that combines the semantic component 言 (speech, words) with the phonetic component 乞 (qǐ), together yielding the pronunciation qì. In its simplified form, the full 言 radical is compressed into the shorthand 讠 on the left, while the phonetic 乞 on the right remains unchanged. The core meaning is completion or finalization, typically used in administrative, financial, or formal contexts to indicate that a transaction, payment, or verbal statement has been fully concluded. The speech radical hints that this sense of ending originally applied to the act of finishing a spoken agreement or declaration.
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