Unicode: U+6893

Pinyin: zǐ

Definition

* 落叶乔木。木材可供建筑及制造器物之用。 ~器(棺材)。~宫(皇帝的棺材)。 * 治木器。 ~人(古代制造器具的木工)。~匠。 * 木头雕刻成印刷用的木板。 付~(把稿件交付排印)。~行( xíng )。 * 指故里。 ~里。桑~。 * 姓

catalpa ovata

Structure

梓 graph

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 ->
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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