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The character "遮" is structured with the walking radical 辶 combined with the component 庶, which primarily serves a phonetic function in this construction. Its earliest recorded uses carried the sense of intercepting or obstructing movement from a distance, an action implied by the radical denoting motion. Over centuries, this meaning broadened to encompass the general ideas of covering, hiding, or shielding objects, light, or sound. While the component 庶 independently conveys notions of multitude or commonality, its role here is largely sonic rather than semantic. This expansion in application allowed the character to acquire both literal meanings, such as blocking physical elements, and figurative ones, including the obscuring of truth or information.
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他用书遮住脸。
窗帘遮住了窗户。
大树遮住了阳光。
她用围巾遮住脖子。
这幅画被布遮住了。
乌云遮住了整个天空。
为了遮羞，他急忙转过身去。
巨大的广告牌遮住了远处的山景。