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The character 鸫, with its traditional form 鶇, denotes birds of the thrush family. It is a phono-semantic compound, combining the semantic radical 鸟 (niǎo; traditional 鳥), meaning "bird", with the phonetic component 东 (dōng; traditional 東), which indicates the pronunciation. The simplified form retains this structure, reducing strokes while preserving the logical composition that identifies it as a bird species with the "dōng" sound.