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As a phono-semantic compound, 鲡 (traditional: 鱺) combines the semantic radical 鱼/魚 (fish) on the left, indicating an aquatic creature, with the phonetic element 丽/麗 on the right. It functions solely as a bound morpheme, appearing only in the compound word "鳗鲡", the specific biological term for an eel, and has no independent use in either historical or modern Chinese.
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