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鹠 is the simplified counterpart of traditional 鶹. It refers to an owl and typically appears in the binome 鸺鹠. Structurally, it is a phono-semantic compound: the left side is the simplified bird radical 鸟, signaling a bird, and the right side is the phonetic 留, giving the reading liú. The phonetic 留 may additionally evoke the owl's habit of staying in one place through the night. The character was simplified by replacing the complex radical 鳥 with 鸟, while the phonetic 留 was retained exactly as in the traditional form.
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