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Etymology
Pictograph of a signboard attached to a door. Based on the original meaning "signboard". The meaning later shifted to "tablet" and "flat".
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The character 扁 is an ideogrammatic compound originally combining 户 (a single-leaf door) with an element resembling bamboo slips or a tablet. Its early depiction suggested an identification placard or inscribed board mounted flat above a doorway. As such wooden tablets were typically wide and thin, the character gradually came to signify the adjective "flat" or "thin". This descriptive sense eventually supplanted its original nominal meaning, leading to its common use for anything lacking depth or thickness. 扁 also serves as a phonetic component in many other characters, with its structural link to doorways and flat boards providing the historical basis for its modern geometric sense.
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这个纸箱被压得很扁。
妈妈今天买了扁豆。
他用扁担挑着两桶水。
别把面包压扁了。
他的扁桃体有些发炎。
他一拳把沙袋打扁了。
足球没气，已经扁了。
不要看扁别人的努力。