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The character "蝙" is a phonetic-semantic compound constructed from the radical "虫", which broadly signifies creatures or insects, and the component "扁", primarily supplying phonetic guidance while possibly conveying an associative link to flatness through its meaning. This character was created expressly for the binomial term "蝙蝠", referring to the bat, with the radical categorizing it as an animal and the phonetic element suggesting both sound and a potential visual allusion to the creature's distinctive winged morphology. Throughout its historical usage, "蝙" has never developed a standalone semantic value, remaining entirely bound within its original compound, where it functions jointly to denote the bat without undergoing any shift in its fundamental representational role.
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我看到一只蝙蝠。
蝙蝠在夜晚飞行。
山洞里有很多蝙蝠。
蝙蝠利用回声定位。
虽然蝙蝠长得像鸟，但它们是哺乳动物。
由于蝙蝠是夜行性动物，所以白天很少见到它们。
蝙蝠的翅膀实际上是由前肢演化而来的。
在一些文化中，蝙蝠被视为吉祥的象征，而在另一些文化中却代表邪恶。