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The Chinese character 鲪 is a phono-semantic compound combining the semantic radical 鱼 ('fish') on the left, which classifies it within the domain of fish and aquatic life, and the phonetic component 君 on the right, which provides the pronunciation. Its traditional form is 鮶, with the unsimplified radical 魚. It is a highly specific zoological term denoting particular marine fish, especially rockfish species, and is used primarily in scientific, marine biology, and regional fishing contexts rather than in everyday language.
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