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The character "猹" was coined by the writer Lu Xun for his 1921 short story "Hometown" to represent a fictional animal similar to a badger. Its composition integrates the dog radical 犭, classifying it as a mammal, with the component 查 acting primarily as a phonetic indicator. As a modern literary invention, the character's semantic scope has not expanded beyond its initial context within Lu Xun's work.