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寇 is built from 宀 (a roof, symbolizing a house or building), 元 (a person or head), and 攴 (a hand holding a weapon, conveying a strike or attack). This composition directly illustrates a violent intrusion: someone entering a home to attack the person inside, giving the original sense "to commit violence". The meaning later shifted to denote those who perpetrate such acts, "bandits", "invaders", and "enemies", and also came to function as a verb meaning "to invade" or "plunder". Thus 寇 can refer both to raiding parties and to the act of invasion itself.
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日寇被我们赶走了。
历史上曾有流寇作乱。
战士们英勇抗击敌寇。
那个海盗头目实属海寇。
平定寇乱需要很大决心。
剿灭山寇的行动很成功。
对待民族寇仇绝不能手软。
这群反政府武装被定性为寇匪。
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