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versions. Many characters are formed by combining two simpler characters: one indicating a general category of meaning, and the other to guide pronunciation. Where the traditional texts have both components, the silk texts frequently give only the phonetic half of the character. There are several hypotheses to explain this:
* The scribe may have been too lazy to write the full form of many characters.
* The earlier of two silk texts (or the text from which it was copied) may have been a scribe taking dictation as quickly as they could

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