Unicode: U+6B01

Pinyin: nóng

Definition

* 正。 * 古同"农"

(translated) Correct; Anciently same as "farming"

Structure

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Related substructures

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 ->
41_E32741_E32841_E32941_E32A41_E32B41_E32C41_E32D
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 ->
31_EDB331_EDB231_EDB531_EDB131_EDB431_EDB631_EDB731_EDB931_EDBA31_EDB8
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_E2B0
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_8FB227_E23C27_E23D27_EE74
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 ->
81_F3E281_F3E381_F3E481_F3E581_F3E681_F3E781_F3E881_F3E981_F3EA81_F3EB81_F3EC81_F3ED81_F3EE81_F3EF81_F3F081_F3F181_F3F281_F3F381_F3F481_F3F581_F3F681_F3F781_F3F881_F3F981_F3FA81_F3FB

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