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The character 县, derived from the traditional form 縣, originates from an ancient depiction of a severed head hanging upside down from a tree, a form of public execution. The traditional character includes the silk radical 糸, representing the rope, and a component for the inverted head. Its original meaning was "to hang" or "suspend", a sense now carried by the character 悬. Through phonetic borrowing during early administrative development, the character came to denote a local administrative district, eventually becoming the standard term for a county, a regional division below the provincial level.
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他在县城工作。
这个县的风景很美丽。
县长亲自下乡考察。
我来自中国的一个小县城。
这个县以盛产优质水果而闻名。
省政府批准了该县的新发展规划。
经过行政区划调整，这个镇已经升级为县。
两个相邻的县在经济发展模式上形成了鲜明对比。