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long-tailed marmot
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The character 鼫 is a phono-semantic compound used for zoological classification. The left radical 鼠 (rat) provides the semantic category of rodents, while the right component 石 (stone) indicates the pronunciation. Historically, it refers to a large rodent, such as a marmot or field mouse, with the radical specifying its biological nature.
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