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The character "埃" is a phono-semantic compound consisting of the semantic component "土", indicating earth or soil, and the phonetic component "矣", which guides its pronunciation. Initially, this character specifically referred to fine dust or minute particles in the air, directly linking its meaning to its earth-related radical. Over centuries, its semantic scope broadened to encompass dust in a general sense, and later, in modern contexts, it was adopted to denote the angstrom unit, a measurement of length used in scientific fields such as physics and chemistry.
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埃及是一个国家。
我喜欢埃及文化。
埃及有古老的金字塔。
房间里充满尘埃。
汽车驶过扬起一片尘埃。
埃菲尔铁塔在巴黎。
埃博拉病毒很危险。
微观世界中的尘埃也是物质。