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(used in place names)
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邆 (téng) is a phono-semantic compound character used exclusively as a proper noun in historical and geographical contexts, not in everyday vocabulary. Its structure combines the semantic radical 辶 (chuò), which denotes walking, a path, or movement, with the phonetic component 登 (dēng), which supplies the pronunciation. This movement radical implies a connection to travel, distance, or location. Historically, the character refers to Tengchuan, a Tang Dynasty place name in what is now Yunnan province, and it also appears in records identifying one of the indigenous kingdoms of that region before the Nanzhao empire's unification. Its meaning is confined to these specific historical and regional records.
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