呦
Definition
* 叹词，表示惊异。 ～，书怎么脏了？ * 象声词，鹿叫声，亦形容哭声："～～鹿鸣，食野之苹"。 * 语气词，相当于"啊"："你也是个没性气的东西～！"
the bleating of the deer
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
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 ->