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The character 槎 is structurally formed from the semantic component 木, indicating wood, and the phonetic element 差. Its earliest documented meaning refers to a raft or boat made of timber, a usage found in classical Chinese literature. Over centuries, the character's meaning broadened to encompass the act of cutting or hewing wood, as well as denoting the stubble or jagged remnants left after such cutting, thereby extending its association from wooden objects to processes involving wood.
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