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Visually, 街 places 玄 between the left step 彳 and the right step 亍, which together form the movement radical 行, with 玄 serving mainly as the phonetic component. The character originally referred to the physical act of traveling to a market to sell goods or peddling wares on the street. From this concrete commercial meaning, it gradually shifted to represent the more abstract acts of boasting, showing off, or flamboyantly displaying one's talents or possessions to gain attention, which became its dominant usage in later literary contexts.
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