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The Chinese character 蛴, together with its traditional form 蠐, is a phono-semantic compound. It features the insect radical 虫 on the left, indicating a link to creeping invertebrates, and the phonetic 齐 (or 齊 in traditional) on the right. The character is most often seen in the compound 蛴螬, which denotes a grub, specifically the thick, white, C-shaped larva of scarab beetles and chafers that lives in soil and feeds on the roots of plants.
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