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The character 钞, from its traditional form 鈔, combines the metal radical 钅 (linking it to wealth and currency) with the phonetic component 少. Its original meaning referred to seizing or confiscating property. This later extended to mean copying or transcribing texts. Historically, the character's primary usage shifted when paper money was introduced, becoming the main term for banknotes. Today, it primarily denotes physical cash bills, while the sense of copying persists in certain compound words.
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我有一张钞票。
他用钞票买书。
这张钞票很新。
我不小心丢了钞票。
如果钞票不够，我们就不能去旅行。
这些钞票比那些旧。
钞票被小心地保存在保险箱里。
尽管钞票不是万能的，但没有它很多事情都办不成。