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The character "畅", with its traditional form "暢", structurally combines the semantic element "申", which carries the ancient sense of stretching or extending, with the phonetic component "昜", contributing both sound and a nuance of brightness or expansiveness, thereby establishing a core meaning related to unimpeded flow or thorough passage. Over time, this foundational concept of physical openness and smoothness evolved to encompass more abstract dimensions, including fluency in language and thought, as well as a state of ease or pleasure, visible in later lexical compounds that denote smooth communication or personal contentment. The simplified incarnation "畅" retains the left radical "申" but alters the right component, a structural modification that continues to reference the character's original etymological link to extension and unobstructed movement while accommodating its widened semantic range from tangible freedom to figurative expressiveness.
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今天的聊天很畅快。
这条高速公路十分畅通。
他们畅饮到深夜才回家。
他心情舒畅地唱起了歌。
这款新产品在市场上非常畅销。
他畅想未来，充满了希望。
读完这本小说，他感到畅快淋漓。
丝绸之路的畅通促进了东西方文化的交流。