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The character "赤" finds its origin in a conceptual blend of the elements for "big" and "fire", directly indicating its primary association with the color of a substantial flame. While its core meaning has consistently centered on red, early literary applications demonstrate a semantic expansion into notions of bareness or exposure, likely derived from the image of earth stripped bare by fire, and it subsequently acquired abstract connotations of sincerity and loyalty, metaphors linked to the perceived purity and unconcealed nature of the color. This progression in meaning, from the concrete to the ideological, is mirrored in the character's enduring structure, which has maintained its compositional logic and form across centuries of written use.
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天空是赤色的。
他赤脚走路。
赤道穿过非洲。
他对朋友很赤诚。
这里的人生活赤贫。
金属被烧得赤热。
他赤着脚在沙滩上跑。
赤色的夕阳映红了湖水。