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Derived from 夗. Pictograph of a dying animal lying down. The meaning later shifted to "small round object", "pellet" and "pill".
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丸 originally depicted a dying animal lying down, deriving from 夗, but its meaning later shifted to "small round object", "pellet", and "pill". Now resembling 九 (jiǔ) with an added dot on the right, it functions as a simple ideogram for anything small and spherical, such as a ball or a pellet shaped by rolling material between the hands. The character is especially common in medicine for pills, capsules, and tablets, and also appears in culinary terms like meatballs or fishballs.
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药丸是圆的。
他每天吃药丸。
妈妈做了肉丸子汤。
这颗药丸很苦。
丸子是中国的传统食物。
他把药丸放在桌子上。
这种药丸能缓解头痛。
虽然药丸很苦，但是他还是吃了。
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