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The character 飏 derives from the traditional 颺 and is a phono-semantic compound: the semantic radical 风 (wind, simplified from 風) combines with the phonetic 昜 (yáng). Its core meaning, being blown, tossed, or scattered by the wind, directly invokes the wind radical to convey motion through the air. Found mainly in literary contexts, it describes a bird taking flight, a vessel sailing swiftly, or dust and leaves swept upwards by gusts. It acts as a specialized, poetic alternative to 扬 (yáng) precisely when wind is the active force.
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