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郏 is primarily used as a toponym for specific locations or as a Chinese surname. Its traditional form 郟 is a phono-semantic compound: the left component 夹 (jiá) serves as the phonetic element, originally meaning "to press from both sides", while the right radical 阝 (邑) indicates the semantic category of a city or administrative region. The simplified form 郏 replaces the complex phonetic element with its simplified counterpart 夹. Historically, it functions almost exclusively as a proper noun, most notably designating Jia County in modern Henan province, and has no common usage as a noun, verb, or adjective.
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