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The character "畔" is structurally a phono-semantic compound combining the semantic component 田, meaning field, with the phonetic component 半, which historically indicated its pronunciation. Its etymology points to an initial meaning centered on the raised border or path separating cultivated plots, a specific agricultural reference to a field's margin. Over time, this concrete notion of a physical divider expanded semantically to encompass natural borders more broadly, such as the bank of a river or the shore of a lake, thus generalizing into a term for any kind of brink or periphery. While classical usage sometimes applied it to figurative limits or points of division, the character has maintained its core association with the concept of a side or edge, evident in modern compounds where it conveys adjacency to such boundaries.
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在小河畔散步很舒服。
我们常在湖畔看日落。
他的房子坐落在田畔。
河畔公园里开满了鲜花。
他独自走在寂静的江畔。
耳畔响起母亲温柔的话语。
这片古战场位于两国之畔。
理想与现实的冲突常在我脑畔回响。