為
Definition
* 會意字。從爪象。甲金文像手牽象,會勞作意,本義是做事、作為。 * 假借為"僞"。做,作,幹,搞。 * 製作;創作。 * 治理。 * 變成,成為。 * 是。 * 學習,研究。 * 種植;營作。 * 設置;建立 。 * 使。 * 以為;認為。 * 演奏 。 * 姓。 * 被 ——引出動作行為的主動者。 * 於,在 ——表示時間或處所。 * 和 ——表示並列關係。 * 則,就 ——表示承接關係。 * 如,若 ——表示假設關係。 * 或,抑 ——表示選擇關係。 * 的,之 ——用於名詞性偏正結構中。 * 賓語前置的標誌。 * 附於單音形容詞後,表示程度、範圍的加深或擴大。 * 附於表示程度的單音副詞後,加強語意。 * 用於句尾,表示反詰、疑問,多與"何"相配合使用。 * 用於句尾,表示感嘆。 * 為 wéi。 * 另見 wèi
do, handle, govern, act; be
Structure
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->
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 ->
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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