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The character "每" has an origin that connects it not to frequency but to a specific pictorial concept, as it originally represented a woman wearing an ornate hairpin or headdress, a symbol of maturity and motherhood. This early association with an adorned woman gradually faded as the character was borrowed for its phonetic value to represent the abstract idea of "each" or "every", a meaning it has retained as its primary function. Structurally, the traditional form is identical to the simplified one, composed of the component for "mother" (母) topped with a horizontal stroke that is a vestige of the decorative hairpin, a persistent visual clue to its ancient pictorial roots. Over centuries, its application expanded into grammatical and adverbial roles, such as in "每次" (every time) or "每天" (every day), solidifying its place as a fundamental distributive word in the language while its original concrete meaning became entirely obsolete.
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我每天看书。
他每次都很准时。
每个学生都努力。
我每周去健身房。
妈妈每天早上做饭。
我们每个月开会一次。
每当周末，我们都休息。
尽管每天很忙，他仍然坚持学习。