Without trickling streams there would be no rivers or seas.
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涓 rarely stands alone today; it lives on in the literary reduplication 涓涓 (trickling) and the idiom 涓滴归公 (turn over every cent to the public). It pairs the water radical 氵 with the phonetic 肙.
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Literary; encountered in set phrases, classical lines and names rather than ordinary speech.
