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鲳 (chāng), written as 鯧 in traditional Chinese, is a phono-semantic compound used in marine biology. Its semantic component is the fish radical 鱼 (yú) on the left, indicating it belongs to aquatic species, while the phonetic component 昌 (chāng) on the right provides the pronunciation. The traditional form uses 魚 instead of the simplified radical. This character was created to name the pomfret, a flat, silver fish valued in coastal cuisines. Historically, it has remained a zoological and culinary noun without developing figurative or idiomatic uses.