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遢 is a phono-semantic compound consisting of the movement radical 辶 (the walking radical) and the phonetic 晏. It almost always occurs in the binome 邋遢, which describes a sloppy, untidy, or careless appearance or demeanor. This radical points to an original meaning of slow, dragging movement, a sense that later generalized to include physical unkemptness and disorganization in personal habits or attire. Thus, the character has no independent semantic development; it is simply a bound morpheme for this specific kind of visual and behavioral slovenliness.
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