department in the State of Lu, in what is now Shantung or N. China
邳 is a rare kanji that refers to a specific historical place name: a department in the ancient Chinese state of Lu, located in what is now Shandong or northern China. Its meaning is purely geographical and has no common abstract extensions.
邳 is a phono-semantic compound combining the city enclosure ⻏ (阝) with 丕, which likely provides the sound. It was used as a place name in ancient China.
The left side 丕 looks like a grand marker, and the right side ⻏ is a city wall. Picture a grand marker standing beside the city walls of the ancient Lu department.
For ヒ, imagine the historical department being so peaceful that you can hear a soft 'hee' of wind through its ancient walls: hee -> ヒ.
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