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The character "颧", meaning cheekbone, originates from its traditional form "顴", a phono-semantic compound combining the semantic component "頁" indicating the head with the phonetic component "雚" providing its pronunciation. In the simplified form, "頁" is reduced to "页" while "雚" remains unchanged, and the character's meaning has consistently referred to the zygomatic bone without significant shift, its structure reflecting an association with facial anatomy through the head-related radical.
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