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five-month-old lamb
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羜 is a phono-semantic compound denoting a five-month-old lamb, or young sheep. It combines the semantic radical 羊 (yáng, 'sheep' or 'goat') on the left with the phonetic component 宁 (zhù) on the right, placing the character firmly in the domain of livestock farming. This character exemplifies the classical Chinese practice of coining distinct single-character terms for animals at precise stages of life, reflecting the importance of sheep breeding and age classification in traditional agrarian societies.
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