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Definition
huá:* 美丽而有光彩的。 ～丽。～艳。～彩。～贵。～章。～表（亦称"桓表"）。～盖。 * 精英。 精～。含英咀（ jǔ ）～。 * 开花。 ～而不实。春～秋实。 * 繁盛。 繁～。荣～富贵。 * 奢侈。 浮～。奢～。 * 指中国或汉族。 ～夏。中～。～裔。～胄（ ➊ 华夏的后裔； ➋ 贵族的后裔）。～工。 * 敬辞，用于跟对方有关的事物。 ～翰（称人书信）。～诞（称人生日）。～居（称人住宅）。 * 头发花白。 ～发（ fà ）。～颠（指年老）。 * 指时光。 年～。韶～。 huà:* 〔～山〕山名，五岳中的西岳，在中国陕西省。 * 姓。 huā:* 同"花"，花朵
flowery; illustrious; Chinese
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 ->
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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