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天

Unicode: U+5929

Pinyin: tiān

Definition

* 在地面以上的高空。 ～空。～际。～罡（北斗星）。～渊（上天和深渊，喻差别大）。～马行空（喻气势豪放，不受拘束）。 * 在上面。 ～头（书页上面的空白）。 * 气候。 ～气。～冷。 * 季节，时节。 冬～。 * 日，一昼夜，或专指昼间。 今～。 * 指神仙或他们所住的地方。 ～上。～宫。 * 自然界。 ～堑。～时。～籁（自然界的声音，如风声、鸟声、流水声）。 * 〔～干（ gān ）〕古代用来记日或年的字，有"天干"和"地支"两类，天干共十字。 甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸，亦称"十干"。 * 自然的、生成的。 ～然。～性。～职（应尽的职责）。～才（①卓绝的创造力、想象力，突出的聪明智慧；②有这种才能的人）。～伦之乐

sky, heaven; god, celestial

Structure

天 graph

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