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The character 猎 is the simplified version of 獵, a phonosemantic compound. The meaning is shown by the animal radical 犭 (quǎn, 'dog'), as hunting typically involved dogs. The sound was originally given by 巤 (liè), an intricate component depicting a bristly animal; in the simplified form, this was replaced by the simpler phonetic 昔 (xī, 'past'). Beyond its literal sense of pursuing and capturing wild animals, 猎 also metaphorically means to search for something aggressively, for example in 'headhunting'.
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他是一个猎人。
猎人在打猎。
猎狗帮助猎人。
他用猎枪打猎。
猎豹跑得很快。
春天是狩猎的季节。
猎户们经常在山里打猎。
为了保护生态，禁止非法狩猎。
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