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Phonosemantic compound. 盍 represents the meaning and 申 represents the sound.

Components

Used here for its original meaning "lid", now written as 蓋.

甲 Sound component

Change in sound

奄 and 甲 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 甲 than it was in ancient scripts.

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《說文》：“奄，覆也。大有餘也。又欠也。从大，从申。申，展也。”