中

楚

Unicode: U+695A

Pinyin: chǔ

Definition

* 落叶灌木，鲜叶可入药。枝干坚劲，可以做杖。亦称"牡荆"。 * 古代的刑杖，或学校扑责学生的小杖。 捶～。夏～。～掠（拷打）。～挞（拷打）。 * 中国春秋时国名。 ～天（楚地的天空。因楚在南方，亦泛指南方天空）。～声。～歌（楚人之歌）。～狂。～腰（泛称女子的细腰）。～辞。四面～歌。～材晋用（指使用他国人才，或指人才外流）。 * 指中国湖北省和湖南省，特指湖北省。 ～剧。 * 痛苦。 苦～。痛～。凄～。酸～。 * 清晰，鲜明，整洁。 清～。衣冠～～。 * 姓

name of feudal state; clear

Structure

楚 graph

Related substructures

1tutANFs va1PLZkc NLsSLSlA BUtTZ1yt

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 ->
42_EB5942_EB5A42_EB5B42_EB5C
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 ->
32_EAC032_EAB832_EAC132_EAB232_EAC232_EABD32_EABE32_EAB532_EAB432_EAB632_EAB332_EABF32_EAB932_EAC532_EAC332_EAC732_EAD232_EAC432_EABA32_EABB32_EACC32_EABC32_EAB732_EACB32_EAC632_EAC832_EACF32_EACE34_F37332_EACD32_EAD032_EAC932_EACA32_EAD1
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 ->
52_E68152_E68252_E68852_E68952_E68D52_E68B52_E68752_E68E52_E68C52_E66852_E66952_E66A52_E66B52_E67352_E66C52_E66D52_E66E52_E66F52_E67052_E67452_E67552_E67652_E67152_E67752_E67852_E67952_E67A52_E67B52_E67C52_E67D52_E67E52_E67F52_E68052_E68352_E68452_E68556_EB7F56_EB8056_EB8456_EB8156_EB8556_EB8656_EB8256_EB8756_EB8856_EB8956_EB8A56_EB8B56_EB8C56_EB8D56_EB8E56_EB8F56_EB9056_EB83
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 ->
71_E63671_E635
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 ->
27_695A
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 ->
71_E63671_E63592_E99592_E99692_E99792_E99892_E99B92_E99C92_E99D92_E99992_E99A
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 ->
82_F57682_F57782_F57882_F57982_F57A82_F57B82_F57C82_F57D82_F57E82_F57F82_F58182_F58082_F58282_F58382_F58482_F58582_F586

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