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The simplified Chinese character 惧 is a phono-semantic compound that denotes fear or dread. Its left component, 忄, is the vertical form of 心 ('heart'), indicating that the meaning belongs to the realm of emotions. The right component, 具 (jù), serves as the phonetic clue. 惧 is the simplified version of the traditional character 懼, in which the phonetic was 瞿, a pictograph of two eyes over a bird that vividly conveyed a sense of wide-eyed alarm. The substitution of 具 for 瞿 drastically reduces the number of strokes, yet the heart radical remains unchanged.
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他感到恐惧。
我非常恐惧黑暗。
她惧怕独自一人。
我们不畏惧困难。
他曾经恐惧高处。
孩子们恐惧听到怪声。
她的恐惧感越来越强。
尽管恐惧失败，他仍勇敢尝试。
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