中

強

Unicode: U+5F37

Pinyin: qiáng qiǎng jiàng

Definition

qiáng:* 健壯，有力，與"弱"相對。 ～壯。～健。～人。～力。～大。～勁。剛～。富～。列～。～弩之末。年富力～。 * 程度高。 ～手。～烈。～酸。能力～。 * 勝過，優越，好。 ～幹。爭～好（ hào ）勝。 * 有餘，略多於某數。 ～半（超過一半）。 * 使用強力，硬性地。 ～占。～加。～攻。～悍。～橫（ hèng ）。～梁（強橫霸道）。 * 著重，增加分量。 ～化。增～。 qiǎng:* 硬要，迫使，盡力。 ～使。～迫。～逼。～辯。勉～。～人所難。～詞奪理。 jiàng:* 固執，強硬不屈。 ～嘴。倔～

strong, powerful, energetic

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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