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The word 天下 is formed by combining the character 天 (tiān), meaning "sky" or "heaven", with the character 下 (xià), meaning "below" or "under". It is a conceptual and spatial compound, where the two elements are placed together not for grammatical purposes but to create a single, powerful metaphor: it visually and notionally represents "all that is beneath heaven". This directly evokes a classical Chinese worldview of the entire world, empire, or civilized realm as a unified domain under the celestial canopy, forming a complete, self-contained concept of the known world.
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天下没有永远的秘密。
我相信父母的爱是天下最无私的。
这家公司的目标是做出天下最美味的巧克力。
他以天下为己任，立志改善贫困地区的教育。
真正伟大的领导者，心里装着的是天下苍生的福祉。