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The character "撒" is structured with the hand radical 扌 on the left and the component "散" on the right, forming a phonetic-semantic compound where the radical indicates manual action and "散" provides both phonetic cue and the core idea of dispersion, leading to its original meanings of casting, scattering, or releasing with the hand. Etymologically, this combination inherently conveyed physical acts of throwing or spreading substances. Over time, while retaining these concrete senses, the character adopted more abstract applications in lexical compounds, such as in "撒谎" where it denotes the uttering of falsehoods, and in "撒娇" where it describes behaving in a coaxing or playful manner, reflecting a semantic extension from physical to figurative domains without change to its compositional form.
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妹妹在撒娇。
他经常撒谎。
园丁撒水浇花。
厨师在菜上撒盐。
他撒腿就跑走了。
播种机在田里撒播。
她撒娇地请求妈妈同意。
农民在广阔的田野上撒种子。