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I was seeing the kanji for the word group, 隊 and for remembering it, I was
trying to discomponse it. This part 㒸 looks like a kanji but I can't find
anywhere its meaning if it's really a kanji. I know this kanji 豕 means pig,
but this other one 㒸 which looks like "pig" but with "horns" above, is it
really a kanji? If so, what does it mean?
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is this symbol 㒸 a kanji?
Yes, it's something a Japanese person would call 漢字{かんじ} (I think). In
English, a closer term would probably be [Chinese
character](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters) or Han character
because:

  * In Chinese, it's an [archaic variant](http://www.hsk.academy/en/characters/%E3%92%B8) of [遂](http://jisho.org/search/%E9%81%82), a character common in Japanese and Chinese
  * It consists of [⿱丷豕](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%92%B8) like you said
  * It's [**not used much in Japanese**](http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%92%B8) (close to none looking at Google results; the results are mostly dictionary entries)
  * It's read `suì` in Mandarin (the [音読み]{おんよみ} of 遂 is [スイ]{sui} for comparison)
  * It's used as a part of several kanji that are actually used in Japanese: 
    * Kyōiku kanji: [隊](http://jisho.org/search/%E9%9A%8A%20%23kanji) (in your question)
    * Jōyō kanji: [遂](http://jisho.org/search/%E9%81%82%20%23kanji) (mentioned earlier), [墜](http://jisho.org/search/%E5%A2%9C%20%23kanji) (has 隊)
    * Hyōgai kanji (not very common): [燧](http://jisho.org/search/%E7%87%A7%20%23kanji), [隧](http://jisho.org/search/%E9%9A%A7%20%23kanji), [邃](http://jisho.org/search/%E9%82%83%20%23kanji) (note how they all have some variant of 遂)
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JFYI, a pig is written as 豚 in Japanese. I don't think the asking letter is a
Japanese kanji.

With or without the horns, they are only a part of a kanji, not a complete
kanji.

For example, 河、海、涼 have the same left side part. The left part means something
related to water, but the left side itself cannot be a complete kanji.

For example, in case of "airport" "transport", the "port" can be a word
itself. However, "emphasize" "visualize", the "ize" cannot be a word itself.
It is only a part of English words, a suffix. It's the same thing.

If you have an advanced knowledge about the etiology of English words, you may
know the meaning of each part of an English letter. But I don't think many
native English speakers haven't thought of it much. Likewise, your asking part
of kanji would probably have a special meaning. But most native Japanese
speakers including myself do not know of it. We don't care because it is
unnecessary in our actual daily life, except for Japanese exams at school. lol
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Etymologically, 㒸 surely represented some meaning at the times of Oracle
Script, so we willingly call it a Chinese character (= kanji). However, since
kanji had already undergone a millennium of development with full of rebuses
and patch-ups by the time the first known dictionary [Shuowen
Jiezi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuowen_Jiezi) was compiled, some of
original meanings were lost or not correctly passed down.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sHsSc.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sHsSc.jpg)  
([source](http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-
mf/search.php?word=%E3%92%B8))

㒸 apparently consists of "eight" and "swine" since the oldest attestation, but
its original meaning is obscure. Ancient documents tends to use this character
for the word written as 遂 today. It is possible that the character referred to
some proper name or domain-specific term, like most of still undecoded Oracle
characters, or like 好, 商, 青 etc. that were taken over by a more common
phonetically similar word.

A similar example is 釆, the shape alone survives the meaning, as parts of 番, 悉
and 釈.
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