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breathing of pigs
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Historical linguistic texts define 豷 as the heavy breathing, panting, or snorting sounds specifically of swine. Its structure is a phono-semantic compound: the left side is the semantic radical 豕 (pig), categorizing the word among pigs and hogs, while the right side features the phonetic component 壹, which indicates the pronunciation. This highly specific term never found broad application and remains limited to detailed agricultural or literary works requiring exact animal husbandry terminology.
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