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稿 is a phono-semantic compound. The left side, the radical 禾, indicates its association with grain crops. The right side, 高, provides the pronunciation and originally meant "tall". The character's earliest meaning referred to the stalk or stem of grain crops like wheat or rice, essentially meaning straw. Over time, this meaning shifted from the literal plant stalk to represent a rough draft or preliminary manuscript, drawing an analogy between unrefined plant material and unfinished writing.
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我正在写稿子。
他的稿件很整齐。
请把草稿给我看看。
我打算投稿给杂志社。
编辑正在审阅我的稿件。
这篇稿子的内容需要修改。
作家把手稿保存在抽屉里。
这份初稿经过多次润色才定稿。