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The character "戎" is structurally composed of "戈", symbolizing a spear or weapon, and "十", which evolved from a pictographic representation of a shield, together forming a concept associated with armaments or military matters. Etymologically, it originally meant weapons or warfare in early Chinese usage, as seen in classical texts. Its meaning later shifted to denote the nomadic groups inhabiting the western regions of ancient China, collectively referred to as the Rong peoples, a semantic expansion that occurred during the Zhou dynasty. While this ethnonymic use became prominent, the character continued to carry martial connotations in literary compounds referring to soldiers or war, and in modern language it persists primarily in lexical items related to military themes.
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他穿着戎装很威武。
爷爷戎马生涯几十年。
两国兵戎相见多年。
将军善于把握戎机。
他投身戎行保家卫国。
阅兵式上士兵戎装整齐。
历史书中记载了许多兵戎冲突。
和平时期仍不忘戎事训练。