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The character 轲, with its traditional form 軻, is structurally composed of the semantic component 车, denoting a vehicle, and the phonetic component 可, which guides its pronunciation and suggests an original association with wheeled transport, specifically referring to an axle or a critical part of a cart. Initially serving a functional role in describing mechanical elements, the character's application in everyday language gradually diminished over centuries, leading to a contraction of its semantic scope whereby it became almost entirely reserved for proper names, most famously borne by the historical figure Jing Ke from the Warring States period. This evolution from a concrete noun to a largely onomastic item illustrates a narrowing of lexical utility, while its orthographic construction, consistently combining these two components, has remained essentially unchanged across historical usage despite the existence of variant forms.
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孟轲是古代哲学家。
我们学习了孟轲的思想。
轲这个字不常见。
他的名字里有一个轲字。
孟轲的著作影响深远。
这位同学名叫王轲。
轲在历史上代表孟子。
关于孟轲的辩论非常精彩。