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乐

Unicode: U+4E50

Pinyin: yuè luò yào lè liáo

Definition

lè:* 欢喜，快活；快～。～境。～融融。～不可支。其～无穷。～观（精神愉快，对事物的发展充满信心）。～天（安于自己的处境而没有任何忧虑）。 * 使人快乐的事情。 取～。逗～。 * 对某事甘心情愿。 ～此不疲。～善好（ hào ）施。 * 笑。 这事太可～了。 yuè:* 声音，和谐成调的。 音～。声～。～池。～音（有一定频率，和谐悦耳的声音）。～歌（①音乐与歌曲；②有音乐伴奏的歌曲）。～正（周代乐官之长）。～府（原是中国汉代朝廷的音乐官署，主要任务是采集民间诗歌和乐曲；后世把这类民歌或文人模拟的作品亦称作"乐府"）。 * 姓。 yào:* 喜好、欣赏。用于文言文。 知者～水，仁者～山。 lào:* 地名用字。 河北省乐亭、山东省乐陵

happy, glad; enjoyable; music

Structure

乐 graph

Related substructures

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Precursors

Oracle Bone Script
c. 1300–1050 BCE (Late Shang)
Inscriptions carved on turtle plastrons and animal bones for divination and record-keeping in the late Shang royal court; the oldest large attested corpus of written Chinese.Wikipedia ->
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Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
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Chu Script
c. 770–221 BCE (Chu, Spring & Autumn–Warring States)
A regional script tradition used in the state of Chu, best known from brush-written bamboo and silk manuscripts with distinctive local forms.Wikipedia ->
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Qin Script
c. 475–206 BCE (Qin, Warring States → Qin dynasty)
Qin-area character forms attested on bamboo/wood slips (e.g., Shuihudi, deposited 217 BCE), overlapping chronologically with the standardization of seal script and the emergence of clerical tendencies.Wikipedia ->
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Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
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Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC