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The character 每 combines an upper element depicting growing plants with the lower component 母 (mǔ), which originally served as a phonetic indicator. Its initial meaning referred to flourishing vegetation or abundant growth. Over time, the character was borrowed for its sound to represent the pronoun meaning “each” or “every,” eventually replacing its original botanical sense entirely. Today, 每 functions as a distributive term, used to denote individual distribution within a group or regular frequency, with no present connection to its plant-related origins.
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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。