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bighead carp
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鰫 is a standard phono-semantic compound. It combines the radical 魚 'fish' on the left to indicate that it is a type of fish, and the phonetic component 容 on the right, which ordinarily means 'to contain' or 'allow,' but here serves only to dictate the pronunciation. The character is used exclusively as a biological noun for a specific, though historically obscure, species of fish. This illustrates the systematic categorization of marine life in the writing system, where a shared semantic radical like 魚 is paired with highly distinct phonetic markers to denote various fish.
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