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淦 is a phono-semantic compound originally denoting water seeping into a boat or churning mud in water. Its left side is the water radical 氵, which marks the semantic field of liquids, and its right side 金 functions as the phonetic, although pronunciation has shifted away from that of 金. These original meanings are now obsolete in daily use. Today, 淦 is best known as the name of the Gan River in Jiangxi province, and it is also a fairly common surname and given name character.
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