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I see 戋 as part of several kanjis like in this table segments

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. I looked for its meaning in tables and dictionaries and I couldnt find
anything. Does 戋 have a meaning of its own?
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does 戋 have any meaning of its own?
To clarify, the question is asking about the shared component「㦮」in characters
like「践」,「銭」, and「浅」, and unfortunately, pending on your browser settings,
these may be displayed as their Simplified Chinese version with the
component「戋」(one less stroke) due to [Han
unification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification).

Simplified Chinese「戋」and Shinjitai「㦮」actually have the same origin, so for
this question the specific one that's being asked is not important; they are
stroke simplifications of what was originally written「戔」, preserved in the
Jōyō kyūjitai kanji「箋」. Note that its Shinjitai form「䇳」is actually Hyōgai.

* * *

「戔」originally depicted a compound of two pole-arm weapons「戈」.

[![enter image description
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It was originally used in two senses in ancient Chinese texts, translated in
Japanese Dictionaries by the _kun'yomi_ entries that are sometimes given for
this character (損なう, 余り, 狭い).

  * As the original character for「殘」(Shinjitai:「残」), which in a generic sense means to _harm_ , extended to mean _the remainder (of an object, e.g. after damaging it)_
  * Preserved in some old Chinese words such as「戔戔」, which means _having the appearance of being small/thin/narrow_.

The above two meanings may be related in some sense. In any case, there are
quite a few characters that use「[戔]{せん}」as a phonetic component.

  * 「箋」, _a piece of paper/a note/bamboo slip_
  * 「錢」(銭), _money_ , originally _a farming tool_
  * 「踐」, _to trample_
  * 「綫」, variant of「線」

Some of them even inherit the _small/damaged_ meaning as well.

  * 「淺」(浅), _shallow_
  * 「賤」, _cheap/worthless_
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