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The character 奥, historically written in its traditional form as 奧, derives from an early conception of a building's deepest and most secluded interior, originally specifying the southwest corner of a room as a private and enclosed space. Its structure integrates the roof radical 宀 with a lower component that in earlier configurations suggested ideas of distinction and breadth, thereby reinforcing connotations of depth and obscurity. From this concrete spatial meaning, the character's application broadened to describe abstract notions of hidden knowledge, intricate complexity, or essential principles, and it subsequently assumed a phonetic role in modern compounds for transliterating foreign words such as in the term for Olympic.
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奥运会每四年举行一次。
宇宙有很多奥秘。
这个游戏很奥妙。
奥地利在欧洲中部。
他擅长做奥数题。
这本书阐述了人生的奥义。
他的学问奥博难懂。
这篇论文深入探讨了哲学的奥旨。