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每 originally depicted a woman (母) with a hairpin in her hair, a mark of a young woman of marriageable age in ancient China, where such adornment signified adulthood. The character was later borrowed purely for its sound to convey the meaning "each" or "every", a usage that completely replaced the original sense. Today it functions as a distributive pronoun for individual members of a group, frequency, or regular occurrences, with no remaining connection to its early pictographic form.
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我每天看书。
他每次都很准时。
每个学生都努力。
我每周去健身房。
妈妈每天早上做饭。
我们每个月开会一次。
每当周末，我们都休息。
尽管每天很忙，他仍然坚持学习。
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