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The character 攸 (yōu) combines the radical 攵 (pū, "to strike") with an element resembling a person 亻 (rén) and a vertical stroke on the left. Originating from a depiction of water flowing or crossing a stream, it evolved in classical texts to serve primarily as a grammatical particle, functioning like a relative pronoun ("that which", "the place where"), and as an adjective for something distant, prolonged, or swift. This shift from a concrete action to an abstract structural marker made it essential for forming complex sentences, while it also appears in compounds denoting distant continuity.
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这件事攸关大家的利益。
环境保护攸关我们的未来。
他的决定攸关整个项目的成败。
在火灾中，逃生是性命攸关的事情。
医生的工作常常是性命攸关的。
这项政策攸关国家经济的发展方向。
鉴于此事攸关公司声誉，我们必须谨慎处理。
在全球化背景下，国际贸易规则攸关各国经济福祉。