方
Definition
* 四个角都是90度直角的四边形或六个面都是方形的立体;正~形.长~形 * 数学上指某数自乘的积。 ~根。平~。开~。 * 人的品行端正。 ~正。~直。 * 一边或一面。 ~向。~面。 * 地区,地域。 地~。~志。~言。~物。~圆。~隅(边疆)。~舆(指领域,亦指大地)。 * 办法,做法,技巧。 ~式。~法。教导有~。贻笑大~。 * 种,类。 变幻无~。仪态万~。 * 为治疗某种疾病而组合起来的若干种药物的名称、剂量和用法。 药~。 * 违背。 ~命。 * 正在,正当。 ~今盛世。~兴未艾。 * 才,刚刚。 ~才。如梦~醒。 * 量词,多指一立方米。 土石~。 * 量词,用于方形的东西。 几~石章。 * 姓
a square, rectangle; a region; local
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->