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As a phono-semantic compound, 猡 (luó) is the simplified form of 玀. Its left side uses the animal radical 犭, which links it semantically to beasts or livestock, while the right side is the phonetic component 罗 (simplified from 羅). The character primarily means a pig or swine, commonly seen in dialects and compounds like 猡猪 (zhūluó) for domestic swine. Simplification greatly reduced the stroke count of the phonetic part, maintaining the structure of an animal radical paired with a sound indicator.