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TSUMUGU · TOCFL 2 (est.) · 字
鮮 character · TOCFL 2 (est.)
鮮 ＝ 魚 ＋ 羊
ㄒㄧㄢ · xiān
adj — fresh; vivid, bright; rare (read xiǎn)

字源 FORM — what the parts do

魚義a fish — the fresh-caught thing
羊聲the worn-down phonetic — once 羴 (three sheep, the strong-smell graph), abbreviated to one 羊
A fish (魚) beside a sheep (羊) — the 羊 is 羴 worn down, the three-sheep graph of strong smell, cut to one and lending the sound. Together they wrote a fish name, then the fish-fresh: 新鮮、鮮魚.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

剛上岸的魚（魚）擺在案上，旁邊一隻羊（羊）——肉都是當天的，新鮮。
A just-landed fish (魚) on the board, a sheep (羊) beside it — both meat caught today, fresh.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)鮮魚、新鮮— fresh — fish, just-caught常用
→鮮明、鮮豔— vivid, bright in color常用
→鮮有、鮮少— rare, scarcely any — read xiǎn
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
鱻xiānthe fuller form — three fish stacked for utter freshness; 鮮 keeps one fish and a sheep