头
Definition
* 人身体的最上部分或动物身体的最前的部分。 ～骨。～脑。～脸（❶头和脸；❷指面貌；❸指面子，体面）。～角（ jiǎo ）（喻青年的气概或才华）。 * 指头发或所留头发的样式。 留～。剃～。 * 物体的顶端。 山～。笔～。两～尖。 * 指事情的起点或端绪。 从～儿说起。～绪。 * 物体的残余部分。 布～儿。 * 以前，在前面的。 ～三天。 * 次序在前，第一。 ～等。～生。 * 首领。 ～子。～目。 * 方面。 他们是一～的。 * 临，接近。 ～睡觉先洗脸。 * 量词，多指牲畜。 一～牛。 * 表示约计、不定数量的词。 三～五百。 * （ tou ）名词后缀（❶接于名词词根，如"木～"。❷接于动词词根，如"念～"。❸接于形容词词根，如"甜～儿"）。 * （ tou ）方位词后缀（如"上～"。"里～"。"后～"。）
head; top; chief, first; boss
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 ->
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 ->
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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