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The character 烬 (traditional: 燼) combines the fire radical 火 on the left, indicating its semantic link to burning, with the phonetic component 尽 on the right, meaning exhaustion or completion. This structure aptly conveys the idea of what remains after a fire has fully burned out, specifically the ashes, cinders, or smoldering embers left behind. Beyond this literal sense, the character often carries a poetic connotation of destruction or the lingering traces of something lost to fire or time.
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火灾后只剩灰烬。
木头烧成了灰烬。
蜡烛燃尽后留下灰烬。
炉子里的余烬还很热。
他清理了壁炉中的灰烬。
这场大火把一切都化为了灰烬。
战争的余烬尚未完全熄灭。
科学家从火山灰烬中分析古代气候。