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萋 combines the grass radical 艹 on top, signaling its plant-related meaning, with the phonetic component 妻 beneath. It serves almost exclusively as an adjective for luxuriant, dense plant growth, and appears frequently in classical poetry to evoke vibrant natural settings. Its reduplicated form 萋萋 intensifies the sense of flourishing, overgrown vegetation, functioning as an evocative literary and botanical term rather than an everyday word.
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