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Definition
dù:* 计算长短的器具或单位。 尺～。刻～。～量衡。 * 事物所达到的境界。 程～。高～。风～。 * 分角的单位，一圆周角分为360度。 角～。 * 依照计算的一定标准划分的单位。 温～。湿～。经～。纬～。浓～。 * 电能的单位，一千瓦小时电量的通称。 * 法则，应遵行的标准。 制～。法～。 * 哲学上指一定事物保持自己质的数量界限。 * 能容受的量。 气～。 * 考虑，打算。 置之～外。 * 过，由此到彼。 ～日。～假。欢～新春。 * 量词，次。 一～。再～。 * 僧尼道士劝人出家。 剃～（剃发出家）。 * 姓。 duó:* 计算，推测。 忖～。揣～。审时～势。～德量力
degree, system; manner; to consider
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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