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子

Unicode: U+5B50

Pinyin: zi zǐ

Variants:㜽仔𠙭𡐫𡿹𢀇𢀈𢀉𣕓𧆰

Definition

* 古代指儿女，现专指儿子。 ～女。～孙。～嗣。～弟（后辈人，年轻人）。 * 植物的果实、种子。 菜～。瓜～儿。～实。 * 动物的卵。 鱼～。蚕～。 * 幼小的，小的。 ～鸡。～畜。～城。 * 小而硬的颗粒状的东西。 ～弹（ dàn ）。棋～儿。 * 与"母"相对。 ～金（利息）。～母扣。～音（辅音）。 * 对人的称呼。 男～。妻～。士～（读书人）。舟～（船夫）。才～。 * 古代对人的尊称；称老师或称有道德、有学问的人。 孔～。先秦诸～。 * 地支的第一位，属鼠。 ～丑寅卯（喻有条不紊的层次或事物的条理）。 * 用于计时。 ～时（夜十一点至一点）。～夜（深夜）。 * 封建制度五等爵位的第四等。 ～爵。 * 附加在名词、动词、形容词后，具有名词性（读轻声） 旗～。乱～。胖～。 * 个别量词后缀（读轻声） 敲了两下～门。 * 姓

offspring, child; fruit, seed of; 1st terrestrial branch

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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