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name of a wine
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醽 is a phono-semantic compound: its left side is the semantic component 酉, signalling a word related to alcohol, wine, and fermented beverages, while the right side is 霝, originally a character meaning raindrops or falling precipitation, serving purely as a phonetic indicator for the reading líng. The combined form designates a high-quality alcoholic drink recognized in historical texts, using the wine radical to anchor the meaning in the realm of beverages and the complex phonetic to mark a specific, superior variety distinct from ordinary brews.
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