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飕 is the simplified form of the traditional character 颼, a phono-semantic compound. Its left side is the wind radical 风 (風 in traditional script), which categorizes it within the realm of weather and air currents. The right side, 叟 (sǒu), serves as the phonetic component. The character's core meaning is the sound of blowing wind, the whistling, soughing, or rustling noise produced by a brisk or sudden gust. In literary usage, it frequently appears in onomatopoeic binomials alongside other wind-related characters, capturing the characteristic sound of cold or autumnal breezes.
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