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鹬 (traditional: 鷸) is a phono-semantic compound that names wading birds such as snipes and sandpipers. The semantic component 鸟 (鳥) marks it as a bird, while 矞 (yù) indicates the pronunciation. The character appears almost exclusively in ornithological contexts and the well-known idiom 鹬蚌相争.
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