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The traditional character 廂 structurally integrates the radical 广, indicating a building, with the component 相, which functions phonetically, and it originally denoted the flanking chambers or wings beside a central hall in architectural contexts. Its semantic scope gradually broadened to refer to any ancillary or partitioned space at the side, such as a theater box or a railway compartment. The simplified form 厢 substitutes the building radical 广 with 厂, a graphical alteration that streamlines the character while maintaining the 相 component, and the character's core meaning has continued to revolve around lateral or auxiliary enclosures throughout these structural and semantic shifts.
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我的座位在车厢里。
火车车厢很拥挤。
我们订了一个包厢。
厢房里有客人住。
这节车厢的空调坏了。
包厢内的装饰非常华丽。
旧式宅院的厢房通常朝东。
乘客们从不同的车厢涌入站台。