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The character "蛑" originally denoted a type of grasshopper or locust, with its structure combining the insect radical "虫" and the phonetic component "牟". Over time, its independent usage declined, and it now appears almost exclusively in the compound "蝤蛑", where it refers to a species of swimming crab, marking a semantic shift from a general insect to a specific crustacean term.
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