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The character 亡 originally conveyed the idea of fleeing or hiding, and its structure consists of a single, indivisible unit in contemporary writing. Its meaning shifted from physical escape to encompass concepts of perishing and loss, as seen in compounds like 死亡 for death, and further extended to denote absence or negation, where it was used interchangeably with 无 in classical texts to express "without" or "nonexistent".
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他非常害怕死亡。
死亡是不可避免的。
恐龙已经灭亡了。
罪犯正在逃亡中。
战争导致国家灭亡。
亡国的痛苦难以形容。
传说这座古堡里有亡魂。
在历史的长河中，许多文明都灭亡了。