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The character "疯", whose traditional form is "瘋", is structured with the sickness radical 疒 and the phonetic component 风 or 風, linking it semantically to disease and phonetically to the word for wind. Its etymology originates from traditional Chinese medical beliefs that associated wind with sudden neurological or mental disturbances, so the character initially denoted clinical madness or insanity. Over time, its meaning broadened beyond literal mental illness to describe metaphorically any wildly irrational, frenzied, or excessively enthusiastic behavior, while its compositional form continued to convey a disorder of the mind through its radical.
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他最近有点疯。
那个疯子在大喊大叫。
孩子们玩得疯狂极了。
别疯了，快下来太危险了！
这个消息让她高兴得快疯了。
球迷们的疯狂庆祝持续了一整夜。
这种疯狂购物的行为很不理智。
在巨大的压力下，他担心自己会疯掉。