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馄 is a phono-semantic compound character denoting a wonton, a type of Chinese dumpling. The left-side radical 饣 (shí) means 'food' and indicates the semantic category, while the right-side component 昆 (kūn) provides the pronunciation. This is a simplified form of 餛, which combines the full food radical 飠 with the same phonetic. In practice, 馄 almost always appears together with another food character to form the word 馄饨.
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