Unicode: U+5986

Pinyin: zhuāng

Definition

* 修饰、打扮。 化~。~饰。~点。 * 供打扮用的物品,演员的衣装服饰。 上~。卸~。 * 女子出嫁时陪送的衣物。 嫁~。 * 修饰,打扮的式样。 时~。古~

to adorn oneself, dress up, use make-up

Structure

妆 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_EDAC43_EDAD
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_F215
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 ->
57_EDA957_EDAA
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_599D

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