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The character 秩, formed by the semantic element 禾 (grain) and the phonetic component 失, initially pertained to the orderly arrangement of harvested crops, reflecting an agricultural context where systematic storage was vital. Its meaning gradually broadened to encompass abstract notions of sequence and regulation, often applied to social and bureaucratic structures to denote hierarchy or official position. This shift allowed the term to become integral in describing general order, as seen in compounds like 秩序, while in modern contexts it additionally serves technical functions such as expressing the concept of rank in mathematical matrix theory.
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秩序非常重要。
请遵守公共秩序。
良好的秩序让生活更美好。
交通秩序需要大家共同维护。
社会秩序的稳定有助于经济发展。
在数学中，矩阵的秩是一个基本概念。
通过分析数据的秩，我们可以了解其结构。
线性空间的维数与其上线性变换的秩有密切关系。