Definitions
(verb)
to interpret; to deduce
(adjective)
continuous; successive
Etymology phono-semantic
thread
Semantic:
纟
About
The character 绎, with its traditional form 繹, is structurally composed of the silk radical 糸, simplified to 纟, and the component 睪, which historically provided phonetic indication. Its etymology stems from the concrete sense of drawing out or unraveling silk threads, a meaning that later expanded into abstract applications such as to interpret, elucidate, or deduce logically from a given text or premise. This semantic extension maintained the conceptual connection to the idea of extracting or continuing, as seen in terms denoting uninterrupted sequence. The graphical simplification from 糸 to 纟 altered the form of the radical but did not change the fundamental relationship between its components and its core meanings.
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他在演绎一个故事。
这部电影演绎了历史。
演员们演绎了不同的角色。
通过数据，我们可以演绎出结论。
她的演绎方式非常独特。
哲学家经常演绎复杂的理论。
从这些线索中，侦探演绎出了真相。
在科学实验中，演绎推理是常用的方法。