Definitions
quail-like bird
Etymology
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The character 鴽 refers to a small bird, often identified as a quail in classical texts. It is a phonetic-semantic compound: the semantic radical 鳥 (bird) on the right indicates its category, while the component 如 (rú) on the left provides its pronunciation. This structure follows the standard method for classifying animal terms in Chinese, where the radical denotes the general category and the other component specifies the sound.