Unicode: U+6B18

Pinyin: zhǔ zhú

Definition

* 古代锄头一类的农具:"恶金以铸斤斧鉏夷锯~,试诸木土。" * 斧、锄等自然弯曲的把:"半矩谓之宣,一宣有半谓之~。" * 树木弯曲的地方:"(盐长之国)有木,……百仞无枝,有九~。"

(translated) an ancient agricultural tool like a hoe: "use inferior metal to cast axes, hoes, yi, saws, and ~ to test them on wood and soil."; naturally curved handles of tools such as axes and hoes: "half a *ju* is called *xuan*, and one and a half *xuan* is called ~."; curved part of a tree: "The country of Yanchang has trees that are hundreds of *ren* tall without branches, and have nine ~."

Structure

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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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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