廣
Definition
guǎng:* 四周没有墻壁的大屋。 * 大。 * 盛大。南朝宋顔延之 * 远大；高尚。 * 遥远。 * 扩大。 * 开辟。 * 推广；传播。 * 开阔；推衍；补充。漢司馬遷 * 多；众多。 * 增多；增强。 * 广泛；普遍。 * 宽度。 * 宽广；辽阔。 * 宽弘；宽畅。 * 宽缓；缓慢。 * 宽慰。 * 汉时侯国名。 * 古州名。治今广东省广州市。 * 广东、广西的略称。宋岳飛 * 姓。 guàng:* 量宽度。 * 指从东到西的长，相当于"横"。 * 指直径。 * 数学名词。指"勾"。 * 兵车名。 * 指用十五乘兵车编组的队列。 kuàng:* 通"曠"。➊旷达；开朗。 * 通"壙"。野外。清朱駿聲 guāng:* 〔闋廣〕见"闋"。 * 通"光"。清朱駿聲
broad, wide, extensive
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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