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奂 is the simplified form of 奐, which originally combined the components 穴 (house), 人 (person), and 廾 (two hands) to depict taking something from a person's house. Its modern meanings of "excellent", "brilliant", or "abundant" are phonetic loans, appearing almost exclusively in the literary idiom 美轮美奂 (měilúnměihuàn) to describe magnificent architecture. Although the simplified character incorporates 大 (dà, "large"), its sense of grandeur comes from the loan usage rather than the visual structure. Historically it also conveyed abundance and leisurely ease, but today it functions only as a bound morpheme in a few fixed expressions.
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李奂是我的好朋友。
我们去奂山旅行了。
王奂老师教我们数学。
阳光下的湖泊奂奂发光。
他的演讲让全场奂然振奋。
这个设计奂有现代感。
经过装修，房子变得奂然一新。
在奂衍的文化氛围中，我们感受到了艺术的力量。
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