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鄞 is a phono-semantic compound with the phonetic component 堇 on the left and the semantic radical 阝 (a variant of 邑, meaning city or settlement) on the right. Historically and at present, it functions as a proper noun for a region in modern Zhejiang province. Its primary and consistent use is as a toponym, most notably for Yinzhou District in Ningbo City.
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