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拟 can mean drafting a document, formulating a plan, imitating a specific action, or intending to perform a future task. It is the simplified form of the traditional character 擬, which combined the hand radical 扌 (shǒu) with the phonetic 疑 (yí, meaning "doubt" or "suspicion"). To streamline writing, the complex 疑 was replaced by the simpler 以 (yǐ, meaning "to use" or "according to"), creating modern 拟, a phono-semantic compound where 扌 provides the meaning and 以 supplies the sound. The hand radical reflects the manual, action-oriented nature shared by all these meanings.
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我们拟定了新计划。
他们正在模拟实验过程。
请拟订一份详细方案。
这个模型拟态了昆虫外形。
该法律草案拟于下月提交。
公司拟投资新建一座工厂。
他提交的论文拟解决一个理论难题。
虚拟现实技术拟造出逼真的感官体验。
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