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工

Unicode: U+5DE5

Pinyin: gōng

Definition

* 个人不占有生产资料，依靠工资收入为生的劳动者。 ～人。～人阶级。～农联盟。 * 制造生产资料和生活资料的生产事业。 ～业。～业革命。 * 从事体力或脑力劳动。 ～作。～厂。竣～。 * 工作量。 记～。这个工程需要三十个～。 * 技术和技术修养。 唱～儿。～夫（ａ．本领，造诣，亦作"功夫"；ｂ．时间）。～力。 * 细致，精巧。 ～巧。～整。～笔（中国画技法，用笔工整，注重细部的描绘）。 * 〔～尺（ chǐ ）〕中国古代一种记谱符号体系，有十个字。 合、四、一、上、尺、工、凡、六、五、乙，相当于简谱的５６７1234567。"工"相当于"3"。 * 善于，长于。 ～书善画。～于心计

labor, work; worker, laborer

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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