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According to Shuowen Jiezi, it is an ideogram depicting the image of a person’s two legs—ク and 乀—dragging slowly as they walk.
Unlike 夂, this character lacks the upward stroke on the top left, but it similarly represents the shape of legs.

#27 — cliff, habitable cave on a cliff, slope

#28 — pictograph created based on the shape of surrounding and confining an object to make it one's own.

#29 — again, and, also

#30 — mouth, opening, orifice

#31 — to surround, enclosure, country, something that surrounds

#32 — earth, soil

#33 — scholar, gentleman, soldier

#34 — to come after, to follow behind, to hesitate

#35 — to walk slowly, slow steps

#36 — evening, dusk, right foot

#37 — large, big, great

#38 — female, woman, daughter

#39 — son, child, baby, male, person, you (second-person pronoun), fruit, seed

#40 — house

#41 — joint, inch (a unit of measurement), small/little, degree of kinship

#42 — small, little, smallness, small things

#43 — lame, crippled, person with a leg disability

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