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The character 夏, which remains identical in both traditional and simplified scripts, originated as a pictographic representation of a person, specifically one with emphasized limbs and head, conveying a sense of grandeur or majesty. Over time, its structure stabilized into a form composed of a page 頁, representing a head, atop components suggesting limbs and torso. This human-centric etymology underpins its earliest meanings, as it was used as the name for a legendary dynasty and, by extension, for the Huaxia people, a historical term for the Chinese civilization. From this core concept of a great people or civilization, its semantic field expanded in two primary directions: it became the standard word for "summer", likely through an associative link between the season's vibrancy and the flourishing of human activity, and it persists as a literary or formal name for China itself, as seen in terms like Huaxia.
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夏天天气很热。
我喜欢夏天游泳。
夏天我们常去海边。
每年的夏天都很漫长。
夏季是旅游的好季节。
夏天比春天温度高很多。
如果夏天不下雨，我们就去野餐。
尽管夏天炎热，但我还是喜欢它的阳光和活力。