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This phono-semantic compound features the water radical 氵 on the left, indicating its semantic domain, and the phonetic component 殳 on the right, originally depicting a hand wielding a weapon or tool. Its core meaning involved submersion in water, sinking, drowning, or being submerged. When pronounced mò, it carries these literal senses of sinking or disappearance, along with related meanings like confiscation. The most common modern usage, pronounced méi, evolved from this idea of disappearance into a grammatical negative, used to deny possession or negate the completion of an action.
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我没有手表。
他昨天没回家。
我没听到电话声。
这个地方没人来过。
如果你没时间，就别去了。
他根本没考虑我的建议。
由于没做好准备，我们失败了。
尽管没收到正式通知，他还是知道了。