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The character '霹' is formed by combining the semantic radical '雨', which signifies weather-related concepts, with the component '辟' that primarily serves as a phonetic indicator while also implicitly conveying a sense of suddenness or cleavage. This structural arrangement reflects its etymological intent to capture the abrupt, splitting noise of thunder, as evidenced in early lexical formations such as '霹雳'. Over time, its semantic scope has remained consistently narrow, exclusively describing the abrupt force of thunderclaps or lightning strikes, and it continues to be used almost solely within these specific meteorological compounds without substantive deviation.
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昨晚的霹雳很吓人。
闪电和霹雳同时发生。
他被巨大的霹雳声吓到了。
霹雳般的消息让人震惊。
电影中的霹雳特效非常逼真。
科学家正在研究霹雳的形成原理。
由于霹雳击中树木，引发了一场森林火灾。
在现代文学中，霹雳常被用作象征手法。