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The character "萄" was created specifically for the compound "葡萄", a term borrowed into Chinese to designate the grapevine, and it structurally combines the grass radical "艹" with the phonetic component "匋" to categorize it as a plant and signal its pronunciation. The component "匋", which independently relates to pottery, serves here purely as a sound indicator without conveying semantic content associated with grapes. Throughout its usage, "萄" has never developed an independent meaning outside of this compound, and its form, consistently comprising these two elements, has remained unchanged in its function as a bound morpheme.
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葡萄很好吃。
妈妈买了葡萄。
桌子上有葡萄。
这些葡萄很甜。
我每天吃葡萄。
葡萄和苹果都是水果。
夏天的时候，葡萄成熟了。
葡萄酒是一种受欢迎的饮料。