忛
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Meaning: erroneous variant of 帆
💡 A wind-blown cloth (巾) with a missing bolt (凡) — 忛 is a faulty sail.
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Character Story & Explanation
Unearthing a rare script fragment, we find 忛, an obsolete variant of 帆 (fān, 'sail'). In ancient manuscripts, 忛 appears sporadically, likely a scribal error or regional simplification. It shares the same phonetic and semantic core, but standard orthography settled on 帆. This ghost character reminds us that writing systems evolve through trial and error.
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