中

庚

Unicode: U+5E9A

Pinyin: gēng

Definition

* 天干的第七位，用作顺序第七的代称。 * 年龄。 同～。年～。生～（人出生的年月）。～帖（ tiě ）。～齿（年龄）。 * 姓

7th heavenly stem

Structure

庚 graph

Related substructures

VUNwsihd Fpv7G9GD

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_F6DA43_F6DB43_F6DC43_F6DD43_F6DE43_F6DF43_F6E043_F6E143_F6E243_F6E343_F6E443_F6E543_F6E643_F6E743_F6E843_F6E943_F6EA43_F6EB43_F6EC43_F6ED43_F6EE43_F6EF43_F6F043_F6F143_F6F243_F6F343_F6F443_F6F543_F6F643_F6F743_F6F843_F6F943_F6FA43_F6FB43_F6FC43_F6FD43_F6FE43_F6FF43_F70043_F70143_F70243_F70343_F70443_F70543_F70643_F70743_F70843_F70943_F70A43_F70B
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 ->
34_E75D34_E72434_E72934_E72E34_E73234_E73C34_E73034_F1A734_E75C34_E72A34_E72D34_E72C34_E73634_E72734_E72534_E72F34_E73134_E73B34_E72B34_E73434_E73A34_E73D34_E75B34_E73734_E73534_E74034_E73934_E72634_E72834_E73834_E74134_E74334_E73F34_E74434_E74534_E73334_E74934_E74A34_E74B34_E74D34_E73E34_E74C34_E74634_E74E34_E74734_E74834_E75034_E74F34_E75934_E75134_E75434_E75334_E75634_E75534_E75A34_E74234_E75234_E75734_E758
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 ->
53_F7B053_F7A153_F7A253_F7A353_F7A453_F7A553_F7A653_F7A753_F7AB53_F7AC53_F7AD53_F7AA53_F7AE53_F7AF58_E05858_E05958_E05A53_F7A853_F7A958_E05B58_E05C
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 ->
71_EEC771_EEC871_EEC671_EEC9
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_5E9A
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 ->
71_EEC771_EEC871_EEC671_EEC994_EC7894_EC7994_EC7A94_EC7D94_EC7E94_EC7F94_EC8094_EC7B94_EC7C
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 ->
85_EDF585_EDF685_EDF785_EDF885_EDF985_EDFA

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