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The character 嶂 is a phono-semantic compound with the semantic radical 山 (shān, mountain) on the left and the phonetic component 章 (zhāng, chapter/emblem) on the right. It denotes a steep, towering peak or a high, continuous mountain range that resembles a screen or wall rising vertically. This character is commonly used in the literary compound 层峦叠嶂 (céngluán-diézhàng), which describes a landscape of rows of sharp peaks and overlapping ridges.