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The character "木" originated as a pictograph depicting a tree with roots below and branches above, a form which remains clearly recognizable in its modern structure. Its primary meaning as "tree" naturally extended to denote the material derived from it, "wood", and by further association, anything made from that material, leading to the adjective "wooden". This concrete meaning also allowed for metaphorical applications in classical texts, where it could describe something rigid or unresponsive, and it formally signified a "coffin" in certain funerary contexts. Over time, while retaining its core meanings related to trees and wood, it became most fundamentally employed as a semantic component in hundreds of other characters, where it consistently indicates a categorical relationship to trees, plants, or wooden objects.
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这是一块木头。
桌子上有木碗。
他用木头做椅子。
这棵树木很高大。
森林里有很多树木。
木匠正在加工木材。
古老的木屋散发着清香。
由于木材质量上乘，家具深受欢迎。