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The character 鲡, which corresponds to the traditional form 鱺, is a phono-semantic compound: the semantic radical 鱼 (魚) on the left indicates a fish or aquatic creature, while the phonetic 丽 (麗) on the right gives the sound. As a bound morpheme, it has no independent meaning and occurs exclusively in the compound 鳗鲡, the precise biological term for eels, rendering any standalone use virtually nonexistent in both historical and modern Chinese contexts.
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