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The character "治" is etymologically composed of the water radical combined with the component "台", a structure that points to its early semantic domain of managing water through activities like irrigation and flood control. This concrete sense of imposing order upon natural elements provided a conceptual foundation for its metaphorical extension into the realm of human affairs, where it came to denote governance, administrative regulation, and the maintenance of social order. Over time, the character's semantic scope further widened to incorporate the idea of remedying or curing within medical contexts, as in healing diseases, and later to express the methodical pursuit of academic study. Its consistent graphical form, centered on the water radical, has continuously echoed the original notion of directed control while accommodating these evolved abstract meanings.
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他治好了感冒。
这种药能治病。
医生治疗病人。
城市的治安很好。
政府治理环境污染。
古代中国有治水的传说。
他治学态度严谨。
科学家研究防治疾病的新方法。