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The character 戊 originated as a pictographic depiction of a broad-bladed axe or ceremonial weapon, which constituted its initial semantic content. This concrete meaning gradually faded as the character was co-opted into the cyclical system of heavenly stems, where it assumed a fixed role as the fifth term within that set of ordinal symbols. Its structural composition, largely stable in form over time, no longer conveys any connection to its martial origins, having transitioned fully into an abstract lexical unit employed for calendrical notation and sequential labeling.
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今年是戊戌年。
天干的第五位是戊。
戊时是晚上七点到九点。
戊子年间发生了很多大事。
在农历中，戊年通常与土元素相关联。
戊烷是一种有机化合物。
戊戌变法发生在公元一八九八年。
化学老师解释了戊烷的结构。