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The character 飑, whose traditional form is 颮, is composed of the semantic component 風 (wind) and the phonetic component 包 (to wrap), and it originally denoted a sudden, violent windstorm, with the phonetic component possibly hinting at the enveloping or bursting nature of the phenomenon. Its meaning has consistently referred to a specific meteorological event, a squall, characterized by a rapid increase in wind speed followed by a relatively quick decrease. In its simplified form, the wind radical is represented by 风, while the phonetic component 包 is retained.
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