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鲈鳗

lú mán

2-character word Traditional 鱸鰻

What 鲈鳗 means

1. Taiwangiant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata), aka swamp eel or marbled eel
2. colloquial(alternative for the nearly homonymous {流氓|liú máng}) gangster

The characters in 鲈鳗

• 鲈lúcommon perch; bass
• 鳗mán(bound form) eel (Anguilla japonica)

Sounds the same

Read lú mán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 芦鳗variant of 鲈鳗

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