祛淤 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

qū expel

To banish 去 a spirit 礻; 去 also provides the pronunciation

shì show

qù go away

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		kʰa
Unicode	kiu

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 於 represents the sound.

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

於 Sound component

yū, wū in

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	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	qa
	qas

澱滓，濁泥。从水於聲。