Definitions
music of legendary emperor Gu
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The character 韺 is a phono-semantic compound formed from the left radical 音 ('sound, music') and the right phonetic component 英. The structure directly reflects its specialized meaning: the radical 音 signals the domain of music, while 英 guides the pronunciation. In usage, it is an archaic graph found exclusively in classical texts, where it names a legendary musical piece, a composition associated with the mythical Emperor Ku of Chinese antiquity. The character has no extended or colloquial senses; its whole semantic range is confined to this single mythological musical term, never venturing into broader language.
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