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A phono-semantic compound, 趔 combines the walking radical 走 on the left with the phonetic component 列 on the right. The walking radical signals that the character pertains to movement, and its meaning is to stumble, stagger, or lose one's balance while trying to walk. It appears almost exclusively in the compound 趔趄, which vividly describes an unsteady, faltering gait of someone struggling to stay upright.
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