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The character "载", traditionally represented as "載", integrates the semantic radical "車" denoting a cart or vehicle with the component "𢦏", which initially carried connotations of cutting but in this construct primarily serves a phonetic function, creating a graph originally associated with the action of loading goods onto a transport means. Over time, its meaning extended from this concrete act of carrying into more abstract domains, such as supporting or conveying immaterial things like ideas or duties, and subsequently specialized into signifying the recording of information, metaphorically bearing facts into written form. This semantic expansion is reflected in the character's dual modern pronunciations, with zài pertaining to physical transport and zǎi to documentation or temporal units like years, yet both strands preserve the underlying notion of bearing a burden across its historical development.
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这辆车能载五人。
历史书上记载了很多事件。
货船载满了各种商品。
这篇文章转载自报纸。
下载文件需要一些时间。
飞船承载着人类的梦想。
他的功绩将永载史册。
这部著作记载了历史变迁。