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The Chinese word **感官 (gǎnguān)**, meaning "sense organs" or "sensory perception," is a compound formed by combining two meaningful characters: **感 (gǎn)**, which conveys "to feel" or "sensation," and **官 (guān)**, which in this context means "organ" or "functional part" (derived from its classical meaning of an official who manages a specific function). Together, they synthesize to create a term that literally denotes the "organs of feeling," precisely referring to the faculties like sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. This formation follows the common Chinese lexical pattern where two semantically related morphemes are joined to produce a more specific, abstract, or composite meaning.

Word Definition - 感官

gǎn guān sense; sense organ

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