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The character 崮 denotes a particular landform: a flat-topped hill or mountain with steep, cliff-like sides, commonly found in Shandong province. It is a phono-semantic compound, where the upper radical 山 ('mountain') indicates the semantic category, and the lower component 固 gives the pronunciation while also evoking solidity and a fortress-like appearance. This connotation fits the geological reality: these sheer-sided formations were historically used as natural strongholds.
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