務
Definition
wù:* 從事；致力。 * 追求；謀求。如；貪多務得。 * 緊要的事情。 * 事；事情。如。 公務；稅務；家務。 * 事業；工作。 * 古代官署名。多為掌管貿易和稅收的機構。 * 方言。墟市；集市。 * 店鋪。宋元俗語多指酒店。 * 必須；一定。如。 務必；務須；務請出席。 * 姓。 w:* 通"侮"。 wú:* 〔務婁〕古邑名。又人名。 máo:* 同"嵍"。山丘前高後低。 mào:* 通"瞀"。昏亂；眩惑。 * 通"冃（冒）"。冠
affairs, business; must, should
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->
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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