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A pictograph of a single-leaf door, 户 (variant of 戶) resembles the left half of 門, the double-leaf gate. Originally denoting a door, it came to stand metonymically for the household behind it, since individual rooms and modest dwellings used such doors. This extended its meaning to an administrative counter for families, households, and bank accounts, underpinning demographic concepts of population registration and residence.
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我打开了窗户。
他去办理户口。
这个用户很活跃。
我经常访问门户网站。
许多农户种植水稻。
我们的客户满意度很高。
户主需要更新信息。
户籍制度改革正在进行中。
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