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苁 (traditional: 蓯) is a phono-semantic compound that combines the grass radical 艹, marking it as a plant, with the phonetic component 从 (or 從). The character appears almost exclusively in the name of the desert broomrape, a parasitic herb used in traditional medicine, and carries no independent meaning outside that botanical context.
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