暗
Definition
* 不亮，没有光，与""相对。 黑～。～淡（ａ．不光明；ｂ．喻景象悲惨）。阴～。～无天日。 * 不公开的，隐藏不露的。 ～藏。～号。～杀。～娼。～沟。～含（做事、说话包含某种意思而未明白说出）。～流（ａ．流动的地下水；ｂ．喻潜伏的思想倾向或社会动态）。明察～访。 * 愚昧，糊涂。 ～昧。～弱（愚昧软弱）。兼听则明，偏信则～
dark; obscure; in secret, covert
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 ->