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The character "乌", with its traditional form "烏", originated as a pictograph representing a crow, where the omission of a dot found in the character for "bird" (鳥) visually suggested the creature's uniformly black plumage and its indistinct eye. Structurally, both forms derive from this simplified depiction of a bird, with the traditional character maintaining more strokes and the modern simplified version retaining a reduced outline. Its core meaning as a crow or raven naturally extended to denote the color black, leading to its use in terms like "烏雲" for dark clouds, and it later served phonetic purposes in transliterating foreign names such as "烏拉圭" for Uruguay.
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天上有乌云。
乌鸦在树上叫。
她的头发乌黑。
我喜欢吃乌冬面。
乌拉圭是一个国家。
乌贼在海洋里游泳。
这张桌子是乌木做的。
乌鲁木齐是新疆的首府。