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鹟 is a phono-semantic compound combining the simplified bird radical 鸟 (niǎo), which denotes birds, and the phonetic component 翁 (wēng), which provides its sound. Its traditional form 鶲 uses the traditional bird radical 鳥 and the same phonetic. It designates the flycatcher, a small insectivorous passerine bird of the family Muscicapidae. This structure, pairing a semantic bird radical with a phonetic, is typical for Chinese avian names. The character is a precise taxonomic term, used exclusively in ornithology for this group, and has no secondary literary meanings.
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