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No standalone use in modern Chinese; a literary medical word, as in 溲便 (urine and stool). Its earlier sense was kneading flour with water. It is the water radical 氵 plus phonetic 叟.
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Classical and literary only; found in old medical writing, not in everyday speech.
The three-drop water radical, 水 in left-side form. It supplies the liquid idea behind both senses — passing fluid and mixing with water — the same family as 汁 and 泡.
