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邨 is an orthographic variant of 村, formed as a phono-semantic compound with the right-side radical 阝 (from 邑, meaning 'settlement' or 'city') and the phonetic component 屯 on the left. Historically it referred to a village or hamlet, identical in meaning to 村 (which uses the wood radical), and served as the primary character for 'village' in some historical texts and regional usage. Today it is largely a stylistic or formal variant, appearing mainly in proper names such as housing estates, historic residential areas, and stylized place names.
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