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鹆 is a phono-semantic compound found only in ornithological terms. The bird radical 鸟 on the right places it in the avian category, while the left component 谷 (valley or grain) serves solely as a phonetic, giving the reading yù without contributing its literal sense. The traditional form is 鵒, with the unsimplified bird radical 鳥 and the same phonetic 谷. The character appears almost exclusively in the compound 鸲鹆 (qúyù), the formal classical name for the crested mynah (commonly called 八哥, bāgē), a bird known for mimicking human speech.
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