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镠 is the simplified form of 鏐, a specialized literary and metallurgical term denoting the purest gold or gold of the highest quality. The traditional character is structured as a phono-semantic compound: the semantic radical 釒 ('metal') anchors it firmly among precious metals and refined minerals, while the right-hand component 翏 acts as the phonetic, dictating pronunciation without adding semantic content related to wealth or metallurgy. When the character was simplified, the metal radical 釒 became its modern shorthand 钅, but the elaborate phonetic 翏 remained untouched, so the character retains its specific connection to high-grade precious metal.
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