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The character "此", meaning "this", originates from a compound ideograph composed of the components "止", depicting a foot, and "匕", representing a person. This structure is interpreted as a person stopping or indicating a specific place, thus conveying a sense of "here" or "this". Over time, its concrete spatial meaning broadened into a general demonstrative pronoun, used to point to objects or concepts immediately proximate in context. Its core semantic function has remained consistent for millennia, and its graphical form, which is the same in both traditional and simplified systems, has seen only minor stylistic modifications since its standardization in the clerical script of the Han dynasty.
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此处很安静。
此人非常友善。
此次会议很重要。
因此他决定离开。
从此她不再唱歌。
此产品质量上乘。
对此观点我表示赞同。
在如此复杂的情况下，我们必须谨慎行事。