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Composed of the roof radical 宀 and the phonetic element 禺, the character "寓" initially denoted the act of lodging or residing within a house, a direct reflection of its pictorial component, from which its meaning broadened to include the figurative action of embedding or containing one thing within another, such as a moral within a story. This semantic extension led to the concept of allegorical expression, where "寓" came to signify the implication of a deeper meaning through an outward form, a shift that retained the character's original structural composition while adapting its application to more abstract domains over time.
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我住在公寓里。
这个寓言很有名。
这个故事的寓意很深。
这栋新公寓很漂亮。
好的教育应该寓教于乐。
寓言常常用动物来比喻人类。
他的话语中寓含着深刻的哲理。
这座建筑的设计理念寓于传统与现代之间。