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The character 溲, a noun and verb, refers to urine or the act of urinating and appears in medical and classical texts. It is a phono-semantic compound: the water radical 氵 signals a liquid or bodily fluid, while the right-side component 叟 (sǒu) indicates its pronunciation. In earlier times, 溲 was used in everyday language and traditional medical diagnostics to describe bodily functions and waste. Over time, it fell out of colloquial speech, replaced by more modern anatomical or vernacular terms, though it remains understood in clinical and historical contexts. The character has no distinct simplified or traditional variations, appearing in this same form in modern orthography.
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