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fawn
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The character 麑 is a phono-semantic compound. Its semantic radical 鹿 (deer) places it within the category of cervid animals. The component 兒 serves both as a phonetic element and as a semantic marker meaning "young" or "child". Thus, the structure conveys the concept of a young deer, and in classical Chinese, 麑 specifically refers to a fawn. This core meaning has remained consistent across historical texts and agricultural records.
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