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The character "嗉" is structured with the mouth radical (口) on the left and the component "素" on the right, where the radical semantically links to ingestion and the phonetic element "素" cues its pronunciation. Etymologically, this formation consistently denotes the crop or craw of a bird, an esophageal pouch used for food storage, and its meaning has stayed specific to this avian anatomical feature throughout its historical usage without broadening or shifting.