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鞔 combines the semantic radical 革 (gé, leather or animal hide) with the phonetic component 免 (miǎn). Its primary sense was the action of stretching leather tightly over an object like a drum or vehicle part; by extension, it also became a noun for a type of leather shoe or the upper of a shoe, and all its meanings remain within leatherworking and shoemaking.
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