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五

Unicode: U+4E94

Pinyin: wǔ

Definition

* 数名，四加一（在钞票和单据上常用大写"伍"代） ～彩。～官。～谷。～金。～代（中国朝代名，后梁、后唐、后晋、后汉、后周先后在中原建立政权的时期）。～帝（中国传说中的五个帝王，通常指黄帝、颛顼、帝喾、唐尧、虞舜）。～毒（指蝎、蛇、蜈蚣、壁虎、蟾蜍）。～行（指金、木、水、火、土）。～岭（指越城岭，都庞岭，萌渚岭、骑田岭、大庾岭）。～岳（指东岳泰山、西岳华山、南岳衡山、北岳恒山和中岳嵩山，是中国历史上五大名山）。～脏（指心、肝、脾、肺、肾）。 * 中国古代乐谱的记音符号，相当于简谱"6"

five; surname

Structure

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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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Clerical Script
c. 300 BCE–220 CE (emerged late Warring States/Qin; dominant Han)
A practical script that evolved from late Warring States/Qin writing; it matured and became dominant in the Han dynasty, favoring faster, more rectilinear strokes.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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