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The modern character 松 has two distinct roots. For 'pine tree', it is a phono-semantic compound in which 木 (tree/wood) provides the meaning and 公 the sound. The meaning 'loose, relaxed' was originally written with the separate character 鬆, combining the hair radical 髟 and the phonetic 松. During simplification, 鬆 was merged into the simpler 松, so the single character now denotes both a coniferous tree and the state of being loose or unfastened. The loose sense comes from the visual image of disheveled hair implied by the hair component.
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松树长在山上。
请把螺丝拧松一点。
考试结束后我很放松。
他轻松地回答了所有问题。
松软的蛋糕非常好吃。
政策松动带来了新机会。
工作了一周，周末该松驰一下了。
这片松林的保护工作很严格。
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