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骰 (tóu) means a die or dice, the small cubes marked with dots used in games, and appears almost always in the compound 骰子. It is a phono-semantic character: the radical 骨 (bone) indicates the material historically carved into dice, while the component 殳 (shū) gives the sound, though the pronunciation shifted to tóu over time. 殳 itself depicts an ancient weapon or tool, so the combination also evokes a bone tool. The character's meaning stays strictly literal, without extended or figurative senses.
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