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The character "蝤" is structured with the insect radical "虫" on the left and the component "酋" on the right, which primarily functions as a phonetic element. In classical Chinese, this character was used in the term "蝤蛴" to designate a type of insect larva or grub. Over time, its application shifted, and it now appears almost exclusively in the compound "蝤蛑", which refers to a specific kind of crab, thereby narrowing its semantic scope from a general larval insect to a particular crustacean.
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