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The character "聚", meaning to gather or assemble, derives its form from a combination of semantic and phonetic elements, with its traditional form maintaining the original composition. Its upper component, "取", originally depicting a hand grasping an ear as a war trophy, here primarily serves a phonetic function while also contributing a sense of active collection. The lower element, historically a variant representing a crowd of three people, provides the core semantic meaning of a multitude. This structural logic, depicting the action of bringing a crowd together, has remained consistent in conveying its core concept. While its earliest applications centered on the physical gathering of people, its meaning broadened over centuries to encompass the accumulation of objects, the convergence of abstract things like thoughts or capital, and by extension, concepts like villages as gathering places for populations.
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朋友们聚在一起聊天。
同学们聚集在操场上。
全家人团聚庆祝新年。
周末我们有个小聚会。
这座城市汇聚了各地美食。
凝聚力让团队更强大。
他正聚精会神地看书。
这次会议聚焦于环境保护。