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breathing of pigs
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The character 豷 specifically denotes the heavy breathing, panting, or snorting sounds made by swine. Its left component, the semantic radical 豕, classifies the meaning under pigs and hogs. The right component, 壱, functions as the phonetic element indicating pronunciation. This phono-semantic compound remains specialized, appearing mainly in agricultural or literary texts that require precise terminology for animal husbandry.
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