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邾 (zhū) combines the phonetic 朱 (zhū) with the semantic component 阝, the right-side form of 邑 (yì), which denotes a city or state. It was coined for the State of Zhu, a minor Zhou Dynasty vassal that persisted into the Spring and Autumn period. After the state's conquest and assimilation, the character became a surname, carrying the ancestral legacy of its inhabitants. Today it functions only as a geographical and genealogical marker, with no general meaning.
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