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The character "葫" is a phono-semantic compound consisting of the grass radical "艹" indicating its plant category and the phonetic component "胡" which provides sound. It derives from the historical term for gourd, originally written as "胡卢" or "壶卢", before the grass radical was systematically added to specify the plant association. In modern usage, "葫" appears exclusively in the compound "葫芦" to denote the gourd, with its structure remaining unchanged and no independent meaning outside this context.
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我有一个大葫芦。
这个葫芦很漂亮。
妈妈买了一个葫芦。
他会吹葫芦丝。
昨天我在市场看到葫芦。
孩子们喜欢看葫芦娃。
那个葫芦里装着美味的酒。
她用葫芦制作了一个精美的工艺品。