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邶 is a phono-semantic compound character created for a specific geographical name. It consists of the right ear radical 阝, which designates a city, state, or populated region, and the left component 北, which supplies the reading and also conveys a semantic hint of a northern location. The character was used to write the name of the ancient State of Bei, a Zhou Dynasty feudal domain in what is now Henan province. Because it serves solely as a proper noun for this defunct state, it has no other definitions or extended meanings and remains limited to contexts of classical history, ancient geography, and traditional poetry from that area.
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