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The character "鬃" is formed from the semantic component "髟", which denotes hair, combined with the phonetic component "宗" to indicate its pronunciation. Etymologically, it stems from earlier words for hair, gradually narrowing in reference to specify the coarse, long hair found on the necks of animals such as horses, commonly known as a mane or bristles. This shift in meaning from a general concept of hair to a more defined zoological feature occurred without altering its fundamental phono-semantic structure.
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