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Unicode: U+6587

Pinyin: wén wèn

Definition

* 事物错综所造成的纹理或形象。 灿若～锦。 * 刺画花纹。 ～身。 * 记录语言的符号。 ～字。～盲。以～害辞。 * 用文字记下来以及与之有关的。 ～凭。～艺。～体。～典。～苑。～献（指有历史价值和参考价值的图书资料）。～采（ ① 文辞、文艺方面的才华； ② 错杂艳丽的色彩）。 * 人类劳动成果的总结。 ～化。～物。 * 自然界的某些现象。 天～。水～。 * 旧时指礼节仪式。 虚～。繁～缛节（过多的礼节仪式）。 * 文华辞采，与"质"、"情"相对。 ～质彬彬。 * 温和。 ～火。～静。～雅。 * 指非军事的。 ～职。～治武功（指礼乐教化和军事功绩）。 * 指以古汉语为基础的书面语。 ～言。～白间杂。 * 专指社会科学。 ～科。 * 掩饰。 ～过饰非。 * 量词，指旧时小铜钱。 一～不名。 * 姓

literature, culture, writing

Structure

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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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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC