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The character "踉" is structured with the semantic radical "足", denoting a relation to the foot or movement, and the phonetic component "良", which guides its pronunciation. Etymologically, it originated in early Chinese texts to describe a hurried or irregular manner of walking, but its independent semantic scope narrowed over centuries. Eventually, it became fixed almost exclusively within the compound "踉跄", where it conveys the specific meaning of staggering or stumbling, marking a transition from a more general verb to a specialized element in a disyllabic expression. This evolution in usage, where the character's role condensed into a set lexical pairing, occurred without significant alteration to its graphical form.
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他走路踉踉跄跄。
老人踉跄地站起来。
他喝醉了，踉跄着走路。
小孩踉跄地跑向妈妈。
黑暗中他踉跄了几步。
他突然踉跄了一下。
尽管努力保持平衡，他还是踉跄了。
在湿滑的路面上，他一个踉跄，差点摔倒。