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雉 is a noun primarily meaning pheasant, a game bird noted for its colorful plumage. Its structure combines the semantic component 隹 (short-tailed bird) on the right with 矢 (arrow) on the left, historically implying a bird often hunted with arrows. In ancient times, it also served as a unit of measurement for city wall dimensions, though this architectural sense is now obsolete, leaving the bird definition as the primary meaning.
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