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The character 逦 describes something meandering or continuously extending, like winding roads or long landscapes. It is a phono-semantic compound with the motion radical 辶, which surrounds the character and indicates a connection to walking or paths. In its traditional form 邐, the enclosed phonetic component is the complex 麗, simplified in 逦 to 丽 for fewer strokes while retaining the phonetic guidance. The character appears almost exclusively in the disyllabic word 迤逦, functioning as a bound morpheme to convey a literary sense of continuous, winding movement rather than serving as an independent word.
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