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The character "重" derives from an early conceptual representation of a person bearing a substantial burden, which firmly established its original sense of physical weight. Its structural composition, which later came to be associated with ideas of density and accumulation, reflects an abstract understanding of heaviness and substance. Over centuries, the semantic scope of the character extended from denoting mere mass to encompassing figurative dimensions of importance, gravity, and high value. Additionally, it acquired a separate phonetic reading and meaning related to repetition or redundancy, a semantic development likely influenced by the notion of layering or piling, which conceptually aligns with adding weight. These dual meanings of weight and repetition have been maintained within its unchanged graphical form across the long course of its usage.
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这本书很重要。
我重新开始工作。
这是今天的重点。
请重复你说的话。
这个箱子的重量很大。
学校重视学生的安全。
他的心情很沉重。
这两张图片完全重叠。