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The Chinese character 褓 is a phono-semantic compound with the semantic clothing radical 衤 on the left and the phonetic component 保 on the right. The radical 衤 indicates its connection to garments, aligning with its meaning: swaddling clothes or a cloth wrapper used for carrying infants. It most commonly appears in the compound 襁褓, referring to baby wrappings and metaphorically denoting early infancy or the beginning stages of life or development.
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