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娌 is a phono-semantic compound: the semantic radical 女 places it among characters related to women or female relationships, while the phonetic element 里 indicates pronunciation. It functions solely as a bound morpheme in the kinship term 妯娌, which denotes the relationship between brothers' wives (sisters-in-law). Coined to fill a lexical gap in the elaborate traditional Chinese kinship system, its meaning is strictly confined to this specific familial bond and has no extended or metaphorical uses.
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