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The character 囫 appears almost exclusively in the compound word "囫囵" (húlún), meaning whole or complete. Structurally, it is a phono-semantic compound. The outer radical 囗 (a boundary) provides the semantic category, suggesting containment or an unbroken whole. The inner component 勿 (wù) supplies the phonetic element. Because 囫 is rarely used independently, its historical and semantic development is closely tied to idiomatic expressions about swallowing something whole or accepting ideas without analysis.