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The character "鹛", with its traditional form "鶥", is structured as a phonosemantic compound where the component "眉" (méi) serves as the phonetic element and "鸟" or "鳥" acts as the semantic radical denoting the category of birds. This character was formulated to specifically represent the babbler, a group of songbirds, with the phonetic "眉" guiding its pronunciation and the bird radical anchoring its meaning within avian terminology. Its etymology reflects the conventional process of constructing Chinese logograms by pairing a semantic indicator with a phonetic cue, and since its creation, the character has been used exclusively to refer to this particular type of bird without broadening or shifting its semantic scope.