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The character "蔬" is structurally composed of the grass radical superimposed over the component "疏", which primarily serves a phonetic function while concurrently echoing an early semantic nuance of roughness or coarseness associated with wild, edible plants. In its initial usage, the term specifically denoted these uncultivated greens, distinguishing them from more refined garden produce, but through prolonged linguistic application its meaning generalized to encompass all vegetable matter. This semantic broadening from a specific to a general category occurred without substantial change to the character's orthographic form, preserving its clear pictophonic identity where the radical categorizes it within the plant kingdom and the base component continues to anchor its sound and historic connotation.
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我喜欢吃蔬菜。
妈妈去市场买蔬菜。
这些蔬菜非常新鲜。
多吃蔬菜对身体好。
如果蔬菜便宜，我就多买。
每天吃五种蔬菜有益健康。
相比水果，他更喜欢吃蔬菜。
为了保持均衡饮食，我们应该摄入足量的蔬菜。