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Definition
jiāng:* 快要。 ～要。～至。～來。即～。 * 帶領，扶助。 ～雛。扶～。～軍。 * 拿，持。 ～心比心。 * 把。 ～門關好。 * 下象棋時攻擊對方的"將"或"帥"。 * 用言語刺激。 你別～他的火兒了。 * 保養。 ～養。～息。 * 獸類生子。 ～駒。～小豬。 * 順從。 ～就（遷就，湊合）。～計就計。 * 又，且。 ～信～疑。 * 助詞，用在動詞和"出來"、"起來"、"上去"等中間。 走～出來。 * 剛，剛剛。 ～～。～才。 * 姓。 jiàng:* 軍銜的一級，在校以上，泛指高級軍官。 ～領。 * 統率，指揮。 ～百萬之衆
will, going to, future; general
Structure
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->
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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