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螬 combines the insect radical (虫) on the left, marking it as an arthropod or crawling creature, with the phonetic 曹 on the right. The character appears almost exclusively in a specific two-character compound meaning the white grub or larva of a scarab beetle, a root-feeding agricultural pest. Its use is thus a specialized zoological term in agricultural and entomological contexts, rarely standing alone or applied outside that narrow category.
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