A small mound of earth rose at the edge of the field.
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埵 is a classical word for a hard earthen mound (and for the iron blast-pipe of an old bellows). It is not used independently in modern Chinese, which says 土堆. Built on the earth radical 土 with phonetic 垂; you meet it only in old texts.
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Classical and technical only. 埵 survives in old texts and dictionaries, not in everyday speech.
