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The traditional character "僅", from which simplified "仅" derives, is structured with the person radical "亻" and the component "堇", the latter potentially contributing phonetic or semantic elements related to scantiness. Historically, "僅" was used in classical Chinese to convey "barely" or "scarcely", denoting a limited degree or quantity. Over centuries, its meaning broadened to the modern sense of "only" or "just". The simplified form "仅" retains this meaning while substituting "堇" with the component "又", a common graphical reduction that streamlines writing without altering the character's fundamental lexical function.
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我仅有一本中文书。
他仅学习了三天。
这仅仅是个开始。
我不仅喜欢猫，也喜欢狗。
这项服务仅限会员使用。
他仅凭一人之力完成了任务。
这不仅是一个问题，更是一个挑战。
在如此短的时间内，我们仅能完成初步计划。