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The character 囫 is used almost exclusively in the compound 囫囵, which means whole, entire, or complete , unbroken and undivided. It is a phono-semantic compound: the outer radical 囗, meaning enclosure, suggests an unbroken boundary or the idea of containing something entirely, while the inner component 勿 serves as the phonetic indicator. Since 囫 rarely occurs alone, its semantic value is tied to expressions that describe swallowing something whole or accepting information without critical analysis or breaking it down.
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