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The character 耧 is a phono-semantic compound: the semantic radical 耒 on the left, depicting a wooden plow, places it among agricultural tools, while the phonetic 娄 (simplified; traditional 耬 uses 婁) indicates the pronunciation lóu. It denotes an animal-drawn seed drill invented during the Han dynasty to sow seeds automatically into furrows, a meaning retained in historical and modern agricultural contexts.
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