掛
Definition
* 懸吊。 懸～。～圖。～牌。～鋤。～鐮。～帥（掌帥印，喻居於領導、統帥地位）。披紅～綠。～一漏萬。 * 牽記，牽連，牽累。 牽～。記～。～念。～連。～累（連累）。 * 登記。 ～號。～失。 * 切斷電話，也指打電話。 給小張～個電話。 * 鉤住。 衣服被釘子～住了。 * 物體表面蒙上或糊著。 臉上像～了一層霜。 * 量詞，多用於成套或成串的東西。 一～珠子
hang, suspend; suspense
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 ->