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The character 偾, traditional form 僨, is a phono-semantic compound meaning to ruin or collapse. It combines the person radical 亻, indicating a human agent, with the phonetic component 贲 (賁, bēn/fèn). Historically, it appears in classical texts and idioms to describe the downfall of plans or careers, often due to human error. Today, its use is largely confined to formal or literary phrases depicting catastrophic failure.
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