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朝

Unicode: U+671D

Pinyin: zhāo zhū cháo

Definition

zhāo:* 早晨。 ～阳。～晖。～暮。～霞。～气。～思暮想。～令夕改。～秦暮楚（喻反复无常）。 * 日，天。 今～。明～。 cháo:* 向着，对着。 ～向。～前。～阳。坐北～南。 * 封建时代臣见君；亦指宗教徒的参拜。 ～见。～拜。～圣。～香。～仪。 * 封建时代帝王接见官吏，发号施令的地方，与"野"相对。 ～廷。上～。退～。～野。～政。～臣。～议。～房。 * 称一姓帝王世代相继的统治时代；亦称某一个皇帝统治的时期。 ～代。唐～。 * 〔～鲜族〕ａ．中国少数民族之一，主要分布于吉林、黑龙江和辽宁等省；ｂ．朝鲜和韩国的民族。 * 姓

dynasty; morning

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