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鲮 refers to the mud carp, a freshwater fish widely farmed and eaten in southern China, especially Guangdong. It is a phono-semantic compound: the fish radical 鱼 (traditional 鯪) on the left places it within the semantic category of fish, while 夌 on the right provides the pronunciation. The character appears mainly in regional culinary terms, aquaculture writing, and ingredient lists for southern dishes such as canned fried dace with salted black beans.