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The character "傣" was constructed specifically to designate the Dai ethnic group, utilizing the person radical "亻" to categorize it as pertaining to people and the component "泰" primarily for its phonetic value, despite the latter's independent meaning related to peace or grandeur. Its formation as a phono-semantic compound replaced earlier disparate terms used for the group, and its semantic scope has been consistently confined to denoting the Dai people since its adoption, with no distinct traditional form existing prior to simplification, thus its structural composition of "亻" and "泰" has been stable in standard orthography.
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傣族是少数民族。
我喜欢傣族舞蹈。
傣历新年很热闹。
西双版纳有傣族村寨。
傣味菜肴以酸辣为主。
傣族妇女的服饰非常漂亮。
泼水节是傣族的重要节日。
傣族文化深受南传佛教影响。