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座 is a phono-semantic compound: 广 (yǎn, a broad shelter or building) suggests the meaning, while 坐 (zuò, "to sit") supplies the sound. Together they turn the action of sitting into the noun for the location or piece of furniture used for sitting, a seat. The sense later expanded to include the heavy base or pedestal supporting a statue or large object, and the character now also functions as a measure word for large, immovable structures such as mountains, bridges, multi-storey buildings, and, in modern astronomy, celestial constellations.
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我的座位在那边。
这座图书馆很安静。
电影院里有五百个座位。
请按照号码对号入座。
那座山看起来非常雄伟。
这座城市的风景给我留下了深刻的印象。
我们在会议室为每位嘉宾预留了座位。
他靠窗的座位正好能看到远处的那座古塔。
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