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Definition
chuán:* 转（ zhuǎn ）授，递。 ～递。～输。～戒。～统。言～身教。 * 推广，散布。 宣～。流～。～名。～奇（➊中国唐代兴起的短篇小说；➋中国明、清两代盛行的长篇戏曲；➌指情节离奇或人物行为超乎寻常的故事）。 zhuàn:* 解说经义的文字。 经～。《左～》。 * 记载某人一生事迹的文字。 小～。自～。纪～。～记。～略。树碑立～。 * 以演述历史和人物故事为中心的文学作品。 《水浒～》。 * 古代设于驿站的房舍，亦指驿站上所备的马车。 ～舍（供来往行人居住的旅舍）
summon; propagate, transmit
Structure
Related substructures
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->
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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