Definitions
crupper; leather strap; (dialect) to draw back; to shrink
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A phono-semantic compound, 鞧 pairs the semantic radical 革 (tanned leather or hide) with the phonetic 秋 (qiū, "autumn"). It names the crupper, a leather strap passed under a horse's tail to keep the saddle from sliding forward. The left side indicates the material, while the right component points to the pronunciation.
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