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A way to remember it
A snake, with the head at the top and the body curling below. Snakes stopped needing their own everyday character, and 它 was left to mean it.
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A way to remember itA snake, with the head at the top and the body curling below. Snakes stopped needing their own everyday character, and 它 was left to mean it.