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The character 隺 is an ideograph formed by 隹, a short-tailed bird, with an added horizontal stroke across its neck. This stroke likely indicates the crane's long neck or the power of its call. Originally meaning "crane", now written 鶴, 隺 later adopted the meaning "very high" or "soaring". Although it is rarely seen as an independent character today, it appears frequently as the phonetic and semantic core in traditional characters like 鶴, bringing both the pronunciation and the image of high flight.
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