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秩 is a phono-semantic compound with the grain radical 禾 on the left indicating its original meaning and the phonetic component 失 on the right providing the pronunciation. It originally referred to the grain allocated as salary for officials and workers. Since this distribution was tied to bureaucratic ranks and hierarchies, the meaning evolved to denote systematic order, regular sequence, and proper arrangement. Today, the character is used almost exclusively to describe societal order, institutional regularity, and organized sequences, with its agricultural origins now only reflected in the structural presence of the grain radical.
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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。