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The character 剥, with its traditional form 剝, is a phono-semantic compound. The semantic component is the knife radical 刀 (dāo), which appears in its variant form 刂 on the right, indicating an action related to cutting. The phonetic component on the left is 录 (lù), written as 彔 in the traditional form. The character primarily means to peel, strip, or flay, as in removing skin, bark, or shells. Its meaning later extended to abstract concepts like exploitation or deprivation, such as stripping someone of rights or property, drawing on the cutting sense of the knife radical.
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她剥了一个苹果。
弟弟喜欢剥花生。
剥橘子皮要小心。
他剥开了那个包裹。
剥削工人是不对的。
剥去外衣，他看到了一封信。
由于剥削，工人们举行了罢工。
在资本主义社会，剥削现象常常存在。