汉
Definition
* 水名。汉水，又称汉江，源出陕西省西南部，流经陕西省、湖北省，在武汉市入长江。 * 天河。 银～。云～。气冲霄～。 * 成年男人。 ～子。老～。 * 汉族，中国人数最多的民族。 * 汉语的简称。 英～辞典。 * 中国朝代名。 （❶汉高祖刘邦所建立，公元前206-公元220年。❷五代之一，刘知远所建立，公元947-950年，史称后汉。）。 * 姓
Chinese people; Chinese language
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->