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The character "鸪" is a phono-semantic compound where the component 古 serves as a phonetic indicator and 鸟 signifies its semantic category as a bird, with its traditional form written as "鴣" using the radical 鳥. It has historically appeared almost exclusively within the disyllabic word "鹧鸪", referring to the partridge, and its usage and meaning have been consistently tied to this ornithological context without significant divergence.
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