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Phono-semantic compounds are composed of at least one semantic component and one phonetic component. They may be formed by one of several methods, often by adding a phonetic component to disambiguate a loangraph, or by adding a semantic component to represent a specific extension of a character's meaning. Examples of phono-semantic compounds include , , , , and . Each of these characters have three short strokes on their left-hand side: , a simplified combining form of ? ('water'). This component serves a semantic function in each example,

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