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beetle
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The character 蛣 is a phono-semantic compound: the left-side radical 虫 designates insects, worms, and other such creatures, placing it in the semantic category of entomology; the right-side component 吉 (jí) is the phonetic, specifying the pronunciation without adding meaning. It refers to wood-boring beetles and similar bugs that bore into or eat wood and plant matter, and often occurs in the compound 蛣蜣, a regional synonym for dung beetles.
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