Definitions
variant of 粗[cū]
Etymology
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The traditional character 麄 represents the concept of coarseness or roughness and is structurally composed of the semantic component 鹿 (deer) combined with a simplified element that originated from a contraction of the older character 麤. Etymologically, 麄 developed from 麤, which used three deer to imply roughness, and evolved into a form with one deer and the element 三, reflecting a graphical simplification while retaining the associative link to deer, often connected to coarse hair or unruly behavior. Throughout its history, 麄 has consistently carried meanings related to coarse texture or unrefined quality, and it functioned as a standard equivalent to the character 粗 before later orthographic adjustments.