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The character "羔" derives from an ideographic composition where the element for sheep, "羊", is placed above a variant of the fire radical, historically "火" but now represented by "灬", to depict a lamb roasting over flames and thus originally signifying a young animal used in sacrifices. Its etymology clearly links the pictorial elements to the early meaning, but over time the term shed its strictly ritual connotation to adopt the more general sense of a lamb or young sheep, while the structural integrity of the character has been maintained without significant alteration, preserving the visual clue to its origins even as its semantic range broadened.
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这只羔羊很可爱。
农场里有很多羊羔。
羔羊在草地上吃草。
妈妈买了一件羔皮大衣。
那只小羔子跟着母羊走。
温暖的羔羊毛衫适合冬天穿。
农民精心照料着刚出生的羔羊。
在传统的节日里，烤羔羊是一道美味佳肴。