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猡 (luó) is the simplified form of the traditional character 玀, constructed as a phono-semantic compound. The left-side radical 犭 (quǎn, 'dog') conveys the general meaning of an animal, while the right-side component 罗 (luó), a simplification of 羅, indicates the pronunciation. The character means 'pig' or 'swine' and appears primarily in regional or dialectal compounds, most notably 猪猡 (zhūluó) for domestic pigs. The simplification primarily involved a stroke reduction in the phonetic element.
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