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red deer
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The character 麖 is a phono-semantic compound formed by the deer radical 鹿 on the left, indicating its semantic category as a cervid, and the component 京 on the right, providing its pronunciation. Historically, it refers to a small species of deer or muntjac native to eastern Asia, found mainly in geographical records and biological texts. It functions solely as a precise zoological term for this animal, without metaphorical or adjectival uses.
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