Definitions
name of a river; place name
Etymology
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郏 is a phono-semantic compound. Its right-side radical 阝 is the simplified form of 邑, indicating a city or settlement, while the left component 妻 provides the phonetic element. Historically, the character has served exclusively as a proper noun for specific places and administrative regions, most notably naming an ancient county in present-day Sichuan province. Its structure follows the conventional method of pairing a geographical semantic marker with a phonetic component, resulting in a character with no abstract or verbal meanings beyond its topographical use.
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