鳘 is rarely used alone; it names the cod and appears mainly in 鳘鱼. It joins 敏 for the sound with the fish radical 鱼 for the meaning — the same phonetic-plus-fish pattern seen across most fish names like 鲤 and 鲨.
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Specialist and bound — found mostly in the fish name 鳘鱼, not as a free word.
