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The character 嫘 combines the woman radical (女) on the left, which often indicates female names or familial relations in ancient script, with the phonetic component 累 on the right. It is used almost exclusively in the name of Leizu, a legendary empress and wife of the Yellow Emperor, who is credited in mythology with inventing silk weaving and sericulture. Due to this singular historical association, 嫘 functions solely as a proper noun and has no independent meaning or general use beyond referencing this figure.