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The character for goose, 鹅 in its simplified form and 鵝 in traditional, is structured as a phono-semantic compound where the semantic component 鸟 or 鳥 signifies 'bird' and the phonetic component 我 provides a sound clue, based on an earlier phonetic relationship even though modern Mandarin pronounces 鹅 as é and 我 as wǒ; this character has consistently denoted the goose without any alteration in its core meaning over time.
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我看见一只鹅。
湖里有一只鹅。
鹅在河里游泳。
那只鹅的羽毛很白。
天鹅是一种美丽的鸟。
我喜欢看鹅在草地上走。
鹅和鸭子经常在一起生活。
农民饲养鹅为了获取羽毛和肉。