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The character 嫜 is a phono-semantic compound, combining the woman radical 女 (nǚ) on the left, which points to the semantic domain of women and marriage, with the phonetic component 章 (zhāng) on the right for pronunciation. It refers specifically to the father of one's husband, a kinship term from classical Chinese that frequently appears paired with the term for a husband's mother to delineate the patrilineal family into which a woman married, so the character's structure transparently encodes its meaning within marriage and family hierarchy.
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