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覅 is a dialectal character formed by merging 勿 (do not) and 要 (want) into one visual unit. It serves as a phonetic and semantic ligature of their contraction, denoting a lack of desire or necessity in certain regional dialects. The two source characters are placed side by side in the standard square, directly representing this spoken fusion. Unlike typical characters built on a radical-phonetic model, 覅 simply joins the negative particle and the verb.
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