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The character 讫 derives from its traditional form 訖, a phono-semantic compound. It combines the semantic radical 言 ("speech") with the phonetic component 乞, which provides the base pronunciation "qǐ" (shifting to "qì" in the full character). In the simplified form, the speech radical is reduced to 讠 on the left. The core meaning conveys completion or finality, commonly used in formal or administrative contexts to indicate that a transaction or declaration has been fully concluded. The presence of the speech radical hints that this sense of completion originally related to finishing a spoken agreement or statement.
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