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The character 呋 joins the mouth radical 口 (conventionally used for transcribing foreign sounds or onomatopoeia) on the left with the phonetic 夫 on the right. A relatively modern creation, it was coined for scientific terminology, in contrast to ancient characters rooted in natural phenomena or abstract concepts. It phonetically renders the names of organic chemical compounds taken from Western languages, most notably serving as the first syllable in the Chinese translation for "furan", a heterocyclic organic compound, so its usage is limited to that narrow domain.
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