挑
Definition
tiāo:* 扁担等两头挂着东西，用肩担着。 ～土。～夫（旧时以给人挑货物行李为业的人）。 * 挑的东西。 ～担。 * 挖取。 ～荠菜。 * 量词，用于成挑儿的东西。 一～儿白菜。 * 选，拣。 ～选。～拣。～剔。～肥拣瘦。 * 古同""，佻达。 tiǎo:* 用竿子棍棒等的一头举起或支起。 ～起帘子。 * 用条状物或有尖的东西拨开或弄出来。 ～打。 * 拨弄，引动。 ～拨。～动。～头
a load carried on the shoulders; to carry
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
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 ->
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 ->
Liushutong Seal Forms
Pre-Qin to Han seal-type forms (≤220 CE) / compiled 1661 (Min Qiji); collated and printed 1720 (Bi Hongshu)
A ten-volume compendium of seal-script variants arranged by the rhymes of Hongwu Zhengyun: each head character gives its Shuowen small seal form, then variants gathered from guwen, zhouwen, bronze inscriptions and Qin–Han seals. Long a standard reference for seal carvers, but the forms are compiled rather than excavated and were collected with little vetting, so many are of doubtful authenticity.Wikimedia Commons ->