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鄞 combines the phonetic 堇 on the left with the semantic radical 阝 (a compressed form of 邑 meaning 'city' or 'settlement') on the right, making it a phono-semantic compound. Its entire historical and modern use is as a proper geographical name for a region in Zhejiang province, most notably Yinzhou District, part of Ningbo City. The character has no broader lexical meaning beyond this local toponym.
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