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The character 字 is a phono-semantic compound, with the semantic radical 宀 (a roof or house) at the top and the phonetic component 子 (a child) at the bottom. Its original meaning was to give birth to, nurse, or raise a child within a household. This sense later evolved to mean "written character" or "word", reflecting the metaphor that basic characters can combine and "give birth" to more complex compounds. Today, 字 primarily refers to a character or word in a writing system, or to a person's traditional courtesy name.
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我喜欢这个字。
他教我写汉字。
这个字的发音很难。
请用这个字造句。
字典里有很多字。
学习汉字需要耐心。
这个字的笔画顺序很重要。
在中文里，每个字都有其独特的含义。