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洳 (rù) is a phono-semantic compound: the water radical 氵 (shuǐ) on the left provides the meaning of moisture or liquids, while the right-side phonetic 如 (rú) indicates the pronunciation. The character describes marshy or damp ground, and the seepage of water into soil, often appearing in historical geographical texts and literature. It frequently combines with other water-radical characters, most notably 沮 (jǔ) in the compound 沮洳 (jǔrù), meaning a swamp or marsh. The structure pairs a water indicator with a phonetic to form a descriptive term for saturated earth.
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