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to saddle a horse
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The character 鞴 is a phono-semantic compound with the leather radical 革 on the left, signaling objects made from animal hide or treated leather. The right-side component 备 provides the pronunciation, a simplified replacement for 備 seen in the traditional form 韛. Its original meaning is a leather bellows, a device used in metallurgy and blacksmithing to blast air into a furnace and raise the temperature. The character also refers to saddling a horse or equipping a carriage with leather harnesses, a sense that directly reflects its radical.
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