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The Chinese character 絮 (xù) denotes both cotton wadding or coarse silk and the act of incessant chattering. As a phono-semantic compound, its lower component is the silk radical 糸 (mì), which provides the semantic category of textiles and fibers. The upper component 如 (rú), meaning "like", serves only as the phonetic element. Originally referring to inferior silk fibers used for clothing padding, the meaning extended metaphorically to things resembling flying cotton, like willow catkins, and later evolved to describe repetitive, tangled speech.
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柳絮随风飞舞。
这件被子填满了棉絮。
奶奶总是絮叨个不停。
夜晚的絮语让人宁静。
他的演讲太絮烦了。
空中飘满了白色的柳絮。
她絮絮叨叨地说着往事。
棉絮的质感使得衣物更加舒适。