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The character 鳆 (simplified from 鰒) is a phono-semantic compound with the fish radical 鱼 (yú) on the left providing its semantic category and the phonetic component 复 (fù) on the right. Historically, it has consistently named a specific marine gastropod mollusk, the abalone, valued in traditional cuisine. Its meaning has remained stable as a biological and culinary noun for this edible sea creature, without extending to metaphorical or broader aquatic references in literary texts.
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