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Main meanings: ①fish scales. ②scale-like thing. |
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Etymology:
Elements ---- Fish 鱼 + ignis fatuus 粦. Phonetic series 粦.
The shiny 粦 part of the fish.Main Words:
鱼鳞 yúlín fish scales.
鳞甲 línjiǎ scale and shell; cunning.Discussion and sources
Though most of the scholars think that 粦 is here the phonetic component, we can see that it has also an important semantic value.
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