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The character "嫉" has consistently denoted jealousy or envy throughout its historical usage, with its structural composition providing insight into its conceptual origins through the combination of the radical 女, indicating woman, and the phonetic component 疾, meaning illness or swiftness, which together suggest an association between jealousy and a pathological or intense emotional condition. This etymological framework implies that jealousy was historically viewed as a malign affliction similar to a disease, often connected to competitive resentments, and while the character's core meaning has remained stable in referring to envious feelings, its application has expanded from often being linked to feminine contexts to encompassing envy in a general sense across genders, indicating an evolution in social interpretations without altering its fundamental semantic range.
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她经常嫉妒别人。
嫉妒是一种不好的情绪。
他因为嫉妒而生气了。
不要嫉妒朋友的成就。
她的嫉妒心让她很不快乐。
嫉妒往往源于自卑和不安全感。
他虽然嫉妒同事的晋升，但努力掩饰了这种情绪。
克服嫉妒需要自我反省和培养感恩之心。