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The character 郓 is a standard phono-semantic compound. The right-side radical 阝 immediately signifies a proper noun for a city, territory, or geographical location, while the left-side component 军 acts as the phonetic indicator. In its traditional form 鄆, the phonetic is the unsimplified character 軍 placed on the left, with the same right-side radical. The character functions almost exclusively as a place name: historically, it denoted an ancient city in the Lu State during the Spring and Autumn period, and in modern usage, it is most notably the name of Yuncheng County in Shandong province.
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