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The character "雩" is structured with the semantic component 雨 (rain) above the phonetic component 于, directly indicating its early association with rain-related practices. Its etymology points to an ancient ritual for petitioning rainfall, a meaning central to its historical use. Over time, the character's application shifted from solely denoting this specific ceremony to occasionally appearing in contexts like toponyms or poetic descriptions of rain, though its compositional link to precipitation through the 雨 radical has remained consistent.
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