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The character "社" is composed of the radical 示, which relates to spiritual or ceremonial matters, and the component 土, meaning earth, a structure that directly reflects its original meaning as a spirit of the soil or a local earth deity. In early usage, it denoted altars for such deities and the communal sacrifices performed there, which naturally associated the character with the people gathered for these rites. This connection to collective ritual activity gradually extended the meaning from a religious context to encompass the idea of a community or a group bound by common interests, and later it came to refer more abstractly to society itself or to specific organized bodies like associations and corporations.
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我参加了学校社团。
这个社区非常安静。
社会需要更多志愿者。
公司经常组织社交活动。
他负责报社的编辑工作。
他们正在开展社会实践活动。
社会保障体系正在不断完善。
她的社交媒体影响力很大。