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鳜 is the character for the mandarin fish, a freshwater species prized in Chinese cuisine. It is a phono-semantic compound: the semantic radical 鱼 (fish) indicates the category, and the phonetic 厥 gives the sound. The traditional form, 鱖, uses the unsimplified radical 魚 on the left and the same phonetic on the right. The character has a precise biological and culinary reference, exclusively denoting fish of the genus Siniperca, and has never acquired metaphorical or extended meanings.
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