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cool breeze of autumn
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飔 (traditional: 颸) is a phono-semantic compound, the left-side radical 风 'wind' marks the meteorological category, while the right-side element 思 supplies the sound. It denotes a cool breeze, brisk autumn wind, or rapid gust of air, and serves as a literary term used mainly in poetry and classical prose to evoke these atmospheric conditions.
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