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箬 is a phono-semantic compound. The top radical 竹 (bamboo) provides its semantic category, indicating a bamboo product. The lower component 乍 supplies the phonetic element, guiding its pronunciation. Historically, the character refers to a rope or cable woven from bamboo fibers. Valued for its tensile strength and flexibility, such rope was essential in ancient engineering for construction, suspension bridges, and nautical rigging, frequently appearing in texts about traditional infrastructure and material use.
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