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The character 迕, which remains unchanged in its traditional form, is composed of the movement radical 辶 combined with the phonetic and semantic component 午, meaning "noon" or "midday". Its original meaning was "to meet" or "to encounter", but this sense shifted toward confrontational meetings, leading to its core modern meanings of "to disobey", "to be contrary", or "to conflict with". This semantic evolution from a neutral encounter to one of opposition is reflected in the character's structure, where the idea of movement toward 午 perhaps came to imply an adverse or head-on collision.