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The character 蓝 is a phono-semantic compound and the simplified form of the traditional 藍. In both forms, the upper element is the grass radical 艹, which shows that the original meaning concerned a plant: the indigo plant, a crop once widely cultivated for the valuable blue dye extracted from its leaves. The lower element 監 (jiān) functions as the phonetic component, indicating the pronunciation; in the modern simplified character, this is reduced to 监. Because the plant's identity was so tied to the dye it produced, the character's meaning expanded from the indigo plant to the color blue. Today, 蓝 is the standard word for blue, while still occasionally referring to the indigo plant itself.
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蓝色很漂亮。
我最喜欢蓝天。
请打开蓝牙。
蓝色毛衣适合你。
蓝莓比草莓小。
他望着蓝色的海。
公司有了新蓝图。
那片蓝色的湖水，平静得像一面镜子。
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