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赋（traditional 賦）combines the cowrie shell radical 贝/貝, signifying money, with 武 as the phonetic component, 武 means "military" and supplies the character's pronunciation. The structure points to the original sense: money used to raise an army. The character first denoted military taxes or levies to fund armed forces. Its meaning later broadened to bestowing or endowing, especially natural talents, and it also became the name of a major classical literary form blending prose and poetry (fu). In simplification, 貝 was reduced to 贝; the right side 武 remains the same.
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法律赋予我们权利。
他很有音乐天赋。
政府降低了赋税。
她赋有艺术气质。
他目前赋闲在家。
诗人即兴赋诗一首。
他赋性乐观，从不沮丧。
这首赋格曲结构复杂。
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