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The character "颇", originating from the traditional form "頗", combines the phonetic element "皮" with the semantic radical "頁", which pertains to the head and implies initial meanings connected to physical leaning or imbalance. Its early usage conveyed a sense of slanted orientation or partiality, which later extended to abstract concepts of bias and deviation from a norm. Over time, this idea of divergence facilitated its grammaticalization into an adverb denoting extent, so that in modern Chinese it primarily functions to mean "quite" or "rather", although classical texts may still reflect its original connotations of asymmetry.
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今天的天气颇好。
他对这个决定颇满意。
这个电影颇受欢迎。
她的表演颇令人印象深刻。
此次会议的结果颇出乎意料。
在复杂的情况下，他的判断颇准确。
尽管面临挑战，他们的团队合作颇显成效。
对于这个深奥的理论，他的理解颇为深入。