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涿 is a phono-semantic compound combining the water radical 氵 on the left, which suggests rivers or liquid, with the phonetic 豖 on the right. Originally meaning "drops of water falling", the character came to function almost exclusively as a proper noun for the Zhuo River and the Zhuozhou region in Hebei. The phonetic 豖 once depicted a shackled pig, but that imagery does not carry over into the character's modern sense. This geographical use appears consistently in historical texts and regional naming conventions.
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