Definitions
place name
Etymology
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The character 鄍 is a phono-semantic compound used exclusively as a proper noun for an ancient place name. Its right side features the radical 邑 (compressed as 阝), indicating a city or administrative district and classifying it as a geographic term. The left component 冥, meaning dark or obscure, provides the phonetic value. As a historical toponym, 鄍 has no descriptive or verbal function and appears only in texts documenting regional geography.
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