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The character 雏, derived from its traditional form 雛, is structurally composed of the element 隹, indicating a bird, combined with 芻, which originally meant cutting grass for fodder and carried connotations of smallness or tender youth, thus etymologically signaling a young bird or chick. Initially denoting fledglings specifically, the term gradually expanded its semantic range to include the young of other animals and, in a metaphorical shift, came to describe inexperienced people or early, undeveloped stages of things. The modern simplified form 雏 maintains the avian component 隹 while replacing the complex 芻 with its stylistically reduced variant 刍, thereby continuing the character's historical association with concepts of infancy and immaturity.
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这只雏鸟很可爱。
鸟窝里有三只雏鸟。
他们精心照料刚孵出的雏鸡。
这个计划还只是一个雏形。
农场里有许多黄色的雏鸡。
古人用“雏凤清声”比喻才华出众的子弟。
这个新理论仍处于雏形阶段。
雏鹰、雏虎和雏狮都是幼兽。