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The character 鱿, with its traditional form 魷, is a phono-semantic compound used to denote squid, constructed from the fish radical 鱼 (or 魚 in the traditional variant) to classify it as an aquatic animal and the phonetic component 尤 to suggest its pronunciation. Its etymology directly ties the character to marine life, and it has maintained a specific reference to squid and similar cephalopods since its adoption, without notable expansion or alteration in its core meaning.