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The character 馄 is used exclusively for the Chinese dumpling, wonton. It is a phono-semantic compound: the left-side radical 饣 (shí) indicates its category as food, while the right-side component 昆 (kūn) provides the pronunciation. Its traditional form, 餛, uses the full food radical 飠 with the same phonetic element. The character almost always appears in combination to form the word for wonton, its structure applying a food classifier to a sound element to name a specific dish.