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The character "芜", the simplified form of the traditional "蕪", is structurally composed of the grass radical (艹) atop the component "无", which primarily serves a phonetic function while also contributing to its semantic sense of negation or absence. Etymologically, the traditional character combines this grass radical with "無", an ancient character representing abundance that later came to mean "not have" or "without", thus creating a conceptual meaning of land where desired vegetation is absent. Its core meaning has consistently centered on land left untended, specifically describing fields overrun with wild grasses and weeds. Over time, its application expanded beyond the literal sense of weedy neglect to convey more abstract notions of barrenness, desolation, or literary disorder, reflecting a landscape, whether physical or metaphorical, that is unkempt and unproductive.
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这片土地很荒芜。
战争后村庄变得荒芜。
他的思路有些芜杂，需要整理。
妈妈在菜市场买了芜菁。
那片荒芜的土地上什么也不长。
后院芜秽不堪，无人打理。
由于长期无人居住，老屋四周早已荒芜。
他的报告内容芜杂，缺乏重点，让人难以理解。