An old wooden table sat in the corner of the room.
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No standalone use in modern Chinese; it survives chiefly in the set phrase 负嵎顽抗 (to put up a desperate last-ditch fight from a stronghold). It is the mountain radical 山 plus phonetic 禺.
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Classical and literary only; met in idioms and old texts, not in everyday speech.
The mountain radical on the left, three peaks. It supplies the meaning, fixing the word as a feature of mountainous terrain, the same family as 峰 and 岭.
