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The character "髌", with its traditional form "髕", is structured with the bone radical "骨" to indicate its semantic category related to skeletal anatomy, while the phonetic component "宾" in the simplified version substitutes the more complex "賓" found in the traditional form to guide pronunciation. Etymologically, this construction aligns the character with the concept of bone, and over time its meaning has been specifically associated with the kneecap, historically extending to terms for punishments involving its removal but now primarily denoting the anatomical structure itself.
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