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The character 鄣 has the phonetic 章 on the left and the city/state radical 阝 on the right, marking it as a geographical or administrative term. It originally referred to an ancient state and several city names in what is now Shandong province. In some historical texts, 鄣 was used interchangeably with the character 障 (a phonetic sibling) to mean a physical barrier, screen, or defensive frontier wall, before the two characters diverged.
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