Unicode: U+5709

Pinyin: yǔ

Definition

* 养马的地方。 ~人。 * 边陲:"亦聊以固吾~也"。 * 防御:"其来不可~"。 * 同"圄"。 * 古代乐器名

stable, corral, enclosure; frontier, border

Structure

圉 graph

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 ->
43_E71143_E71243_E71343_E71443_E71543_E71643_E71743_E71843_E71943_E71A43_E71B43_E71C43_E71D43_E71E43_E71F43_E72043_E72143_E72243_E72343_E72443_E72543_E72643_E72743_E72843_E729
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 ->
33_EABD
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 ->
27_5709
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 ->
93_EB9593_EB9693_EB9893_EB9793_EB9A93_EB9B93_EB99
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 ->
84_E64D

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC