Definitions
old variant of 鶴|鹤[hè]
Etymology
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The character 鸖 is an archaic variant of 鶴 (crane), a bird symbolizing longevity in Chinese culture. Structurally, it reverses the typical arrangement by placing the semantic radical 鳥 (bird) on the left and the phonetic component 隺 (originally depicting a bird in flight, providing the "hè" sound) on the right. This inversion was a common method for forming variant characters before orthographic standardization fixed the bird radical's position on the right for such terms.