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The character 鳊, with its traditional form 鯿, is structured as a phono-semantic compound where the radical 鱼 or 魚 categorizes it as a fish and the component 扁 provides phonetic guidance while aligning with the flat physique of the bream it denotes. This character has specifically referred to this freshwater fish throughout its usage, and its etymological construction directly associates the written form with the creature's physical characteristic without substantial change in its applied meaning.
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