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野 (yě) is a phono-semantic compound. The meaning is carried by 里 (lǐ, from 田 'field' and 土 'earth'), which represents a village or rural settlement centered on cultivated fields. The sound comes from 予 (yǔ). The character evokes the uncultivated open land that begins where the village ends. As a noun, it refers to wild fields, plains, or wilderness beyond the reach of farming and town life. Because this distinction between settled and unsettled space is so fundamental, 野 also took on adjectival senses such as wild, feral, rough, uncultivated, and lacking social refinement.
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我们去野外野餐。
那只野兽很可怕。
田野里有很多花。
他喜欢野生的动物。
野蛮的行为不被接受。
在荒野中生存很困难。
她的性格有点野。
这场足球赛踢得很野。
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