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The character 坯, representing an unfired earthenware form or a rough blank, is structured as a phono-semantic compound combining the earth radical 土 to signify its clay-based nature with the component 不, which historically functioned as a phonetic marker despite the modern divergence in pronunciation. Its original meaning was narrowly focused on pottery that had been shaped but not yet fired, a sense directly tied to its material composition. Over centuries, the term's application widened metaphorically to describe any preliminary or unfinished state in manufacturing and other domains, thus extending its semantic range from a specific craft object to a more abstract conceptual blank while its graphical construction has persisted without major modification.
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他们用土坯盖房子。
这间房子还是毛坯房。
陶匠正在制作陶坯。
他是个学戏的好坯子。
工厂生产钢铁坯料。
这些砖坯需要晒干才能烧制。
他的性格还像一块未打磨的坯。
在陶瓷工艺中，修坯是至关重要的步骤。