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The character 考 shares its etymological origin with 老 (old), composed of the upper part of the "old age" radical and the phonetic element 丂 below. Its earliest recorded meanings were "an elderly person" or "a deceased father", concepts tied to seniority and ancestral reverence. This sense of an authority figure eventually shifted toward the actions such a person would perform, examining, verifying, and investigating, which now forms its primary modern meaning related to tests and rigorous evaluation.
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我今天有考试。
他正在考虑问题。
明天我们考数学。
她打算考研。
公司派人去考察市场。
他考取了清华大学。
如果你考虑清楚，就可以做决定。
经过仔细考察，我们终于找到了问题的根源。