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鸫 (traditional: 鶇) is the character for thrushes, built as a phono-semantic compound. The bird radical 鸟 (鳥 in traditional) marks it as an avian species, while the phonetic 东 (東) gives the pronunciation dōng. Simplification replaced both components with their abbreviated forms, reducing stroke count but keeping the structural logic intact, the character still clearly signals a bird named with a dōng-like sound, preserving its original zoological meaning.
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