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埃 is a phono-semantic compound combining the earth radical 土 on the left with the phonetic component 矣 on the right. The earth radical signals a connection to soil or ground, and the character's primary meaning is fine dust, loose dirt, or airborne particles of soil, essentially, pulverized earth. Although this dust-related sense endures, 埃 is overwhelmingly used in modern Chinese as a phonetic transcription character for foreign names and geographical terms. Its most prominent appearance is as the first character in the Chinese name for Egypt, 埃及.
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埃及是一个国家。
我喜欢埃及文化。
埃及有古老的金字塔。
房间里充满尘埃。
汽车驶过扬起一片尘埃。
埃菲尔铁塔在巴黎。
埃博拉病毒很危险。
微观世界中的尘埃也是物质。
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