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The character "佚" is structurally composed of the human radical 亻 paired with the component 失, which provides phonetic cues and contributes a semantic association with losing. Its etymology points to an original sense of a person straying or being lost, which later broadened to encompass things that are scattered or omitted from recorded collections. In classical texts, the term often described wandering or absent individuals, whereas subsequent literary use applied it to writings that were lost or lacked attribution, resulting in its modern function in compounds such as 佚名 for anonymous or 佚文 for lost texts.
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这本书是佚名作品。
古代文献常有佚失。
这些佚文很有研究价值。
他找到了一部佚失的古籍。
关于这位作者的生平已佚传。
佚存的作品比流传的少得多。
尽管努力搜寻，许多佚书仍未被发现。
学者们通过考证试图还原佚失的历史片段。