中

明

Unicode: U+660E

Pinyin: míng

Definition

* 亮，与"暗"相对。 ～亮。～媚。～净。～鉴（➊明镜；➋指可为借鉴的明显的前例；➌明察）。～灭。～眸。～艳。～星。～珠暗投（喻怀才不遇或好人失足参加坏团伙，亦泛指珍贵的东西得不到赏识）。 * 清楚。 ～白。～显。～晰。～了。～确。～朗。 * 懂得，了解。 ～哲保身。不～事理。深～大义。 * 公开，不隐蔽。 ～说。～讲。～处。 * 能够看清事物。 ～察秋毫。耳聪目～。眼～手快。 * 睿智。 英～。贤～。～君。 * 视觉，眼力。 失～。 * 神灵，泛指祭神供神之物。 ～器（殉葬用的器物，亦作"冥器"）。 * 次（专指日或年） ～日。～年。 * 中国朝代名。 ～代。 * 姓

bright, light, brilliant; clear

Structure

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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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