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used in 髝髞[láo sào]
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The character 髞 is an obscure phono-semantic compound created to denote extreme height or a towering quality. It pairs the semantic radical 高 (gāo, "tall") with the phonetic 喿 (sào), which once depicted a flock of birds chirping in a tree and here functions purely to indicate the pronunciation. Found mainly in classical literature, it is an adjective describing vertical extremity in buildings or natural features, and it often occurs with other phonetic variants that share the same meaning. Despite the clear semantic clue from 高, the unusual phonetic keeps 髞 rare.
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