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The character 未 is built from 木 (tree) by adding an extra horizontal stroke at the top to indicate additional branches. Its earliest meaning was "tree trunk", a sense later taken over by the character 枚. The now-common meaning "not yet" arose through phonetic borrowing. Visually, 未 is distinguished from 末 (tip) by the shorter top horizontal stroke; in 未, the top stroke is shorter than the one beneath it. 未 also names the eighth Earthly Branch in the traditional calendar system.
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未来是美好的。
他未参加比赛。
这是一个未知数。
他未必会来。
我未曾去过北京。
未成年不能喝酒。
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