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郏 is primarily used as a place name or a Chinese surname. Its traditional form 郟 is a phono-semantic compound: the left component 夾 (meaning "to press from both sides") provides the sound, while the right radical 阝 indicates a city or administrative region. The simplified 郏 updates the phonetic to 夹. Historically, the character functions almost exclusively as a proper noun, most notably designating Jia County in modern Henan province, and it has no broader role as a common noun, verb, or adjective.
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