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懋 has a top-bottom structure: the upper component 楙, signifying luxuriant growth and simultaneously serving as the phonetic, rests above the heart radical 心 at the base, which provides the semantic category. The heart radical ties the meaning to inner attitudes and mental states, establishing the primary sense of diligent, intense endeavor and earnest striving. In classical Chinese, the character broadens to function as an adjective meaning grand, magnificent, or highly commendable, frequently used in formal historical texts to extol virtues, achievements, or service to the state.
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