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The character 扔 is a phono-semantic compound, combining the semantic component 扌 (a variant of the hand radical, indicating manual action) with the phonetic component 乃, which provides the sound. Its earliest recorded meanings involved pulling or drawing something toward oneself. Over time, the core sense shifted from a pulling motion to a pushing or casting action, ultimately arriving at its modern meaning of throwing or tossing something aside. Today, it primarily conveys the act of discarding an object by projecting it away from the body.
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我扔了一个球。
请把垃圾扔掉。
他扔给我一本书。
不要乱扔废弃物。
她把旧衣服扔进了垃圾桶。
如果你不喜欢，就把它扔掉吧。
他生气地把报纸扔在了地上。
在清理房间时，我决定扔掉所有没用的东西。