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The character 腋, denoting the armpit, exemplifies a phono-semantic composition with the flesh radical 月 signaling its relation to the body and the component 夜 providing its modern pronunciation. Etymologically, it originates from the earlier character 亦, which initially represented the armpits through a pictorial concept but became predominantly used as a grammatical particle meaning "also". To reclaim the specific anatomical reference, the flesh radical was affixed to 亦, resulting in the form 腋, which subsequently underwent a phonetic alteration replacing 亦 with 夜 as the phonetic element due to linguistic shifts. This character has maintained its core meaning of the underarm area throughout its history, illustrating how Chinese characters often acquire semantic radicals to specialize meaning when their original forms are diverted to other functions.
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他抬起手臂露出腋下。
运动后他的腋下出汗了。
医生检查了他的腋窝淋巴结。
她使用止汗剂防止腋下异味。
腋下的皮肤很敏感容易发红。
如果腋窝疼痛可能需要看医生。
他因腋下多汗症而感到困扰。
在炎热天气里保持腋下干燥很重要。