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The character "翻" is structured with the phonetic component "番" on the left and the semantic component "羽" on the right, the latter meaning "feather" and initially connecting the character to actions related to flight or fluttering. Etymologically, its early uses denoted flying or waving, but through semantic extension, it came to signify turning over or overturning objects, a concept that further evolved to include translating text, as in turning words from one language to another, and repeating actions, analogous to turning something over again.
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他翻开一本书。
妈妈在翻照片。
弟弟把杯子翻倒了。
我每天翻看报纸。
因为风大，船差点翻了。
她翻出旧日记，回忆过去。
如果你翻过那座山，就能看到美丽的湖泊。
这本书被翻译成多种语言，翻遍了全世界。