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大

Unicode: U+5927

Pinyin: dà dài tài

Variants:亣太𠘲

Definition

dà:* 指面积、体积、容量、数量、强度、力量超过一般或超过所比较的对象，与"小"相对。 ～厅。～政。～气候。夜郎自～。～腹便便。 * 指大小的对比。 这间房有那间两个～。 * 规模广，程度深，性质重要。 ～局。～众。 * 用于"不"后，表示程度浅或次数少。 不～高兴。 * 年长，排行第一。 老～。 * 敬辞。 ～作。～名。～手笔。 * 时间更远。 ～前年。 * 〔～夫〕古代官职，位于"卿"之下，"士"之上。 * 超过事物一半，不很详细，不很准确。 ～概。～凡。 dài:* 〔～夫〕医生（"夫"读轻声）。 * 〔～王〕戏曲、旧小说中对强盗首领的称呼（"王"读轻声）。 tài:* 古通"太"。 * 古通"泰"

big, great, vast, large, high

Structure

Related substructures

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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 ->
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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 ->
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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 ->
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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 ->
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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 ->
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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 ->
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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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