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The character "佃" is structured from the radical 人, meaning person, and the component 田, meaning field, forming a pictophonetic compound that originally denoted a person connected to agricultural land. In early textual evidence, it conveyed the general sense of cultivating or tilling the soil, but over time its meaning specialized to refer specifically to the practice of renting land for farming, thereby emphasizing the tenant farmer's role within agrarian economies. This evolution in meaning, from broad cultivation to defined tenancy, mirrors historical shifts in land ownership and labor practices, while the character's graphical composition has persisted unchanged, maintaining its direct representation of a human figure associated with a field.
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这个佃农很勤劳。
从前有很多佃户。
佃户们租种地主的土地。
在旧社会，佃农生活很苦。
爷爷年轻时曾当过佃农。
尽管佃户辛勤劳作，收入却很少。
由于地主剥削，佃农们经常挨饿。
在封建制度下，佃户不仅要把大部分收成交给地主，还要承担各种劳役。