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淖 is a phono-semantic compound originally meaning mud or mire. The semantic radical 氵 (water) highlights the wet, swampy nature of such terrain, and the phonetic component 卓 (zhuó) supplies the pronunciation; although 卓 historically conveyed a sense of elevation, its role here is primarily phonetic. From the literal sense of soft, wet earth, the meaning extended metaphorically to describe a difficult situation from which escape is hard, like being trapped in a quagmire.
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道路上有许多泥淖。
车子被困在泥淖中。
农民在泥淖里耕作。
雨后田野变成泥淖。
他努力从泥淖中挣脱。
这片泥淖阻碍了前进。
泥淖的环境不适合居住。
我们必须避免陷入财务泥淖。
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