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This character is not explained in the Kangxi Dictionary on page 81, but it appears in the oracle bone form of 

to wound, to injure, to hurt, injury, damage, sorrow

 (상, “to be injured”), where a shape resembling an arrow has been found. As a result, the current scholarly consensus is that the 𠂉 component in 

arrow

square, direction

 radical group (모 방).
Most Chinese characters that contain this component (such as 

flag, banner

a group of travelers, a military company, to travel, to journey, to wander

clan, tribe, people, kinship group

to give, to bestow, to carry out, to implement

to turn, to rotate, to return, to bend

 radical, but originally, they belonged to the 㫃 radical (깃발 나부낄 언).
In these characters, the 

human, person

 (person) component on the right side of 㫃 morphed into the current 𠂉-like shape (specifically 𭤨) when combined with other elements. Over time, in the Kangxi Dictionary, the 㫃 radical was abolished and its characters were merged into the 

#1 — one, the number 1, first

#2 — to pierce through

#3 — an ancient punctuation mark

#4 — diagonal stroke, slanting stroke

#5 — The second of the ten heavenly stems (天干 (tiāngān))

#6 — a backward hook

#7 — two, the number 2, second

#8 — pig-year head, top of the character 亥

#9 — human, person

#10 — a virtuous/good person

#11 — to enter, to let in, to put in

#12 — eight, the number 8, the eighth in order

#13 — city outskirts, suburbs

#14 — to cover, to conceal

#15 — ice, oil, to congeal/freeze

#16 — small table, low bench (안석)

#17 — to open the mouth, to gape

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