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瑶

Unicode: U+7476

Pinyin: yáo

Definition

* 美玉，喻美好，珍贵，光明洁白。 琼～。～英。～宫。～琴。～浆。～觞。～台。～林琼树（喻人品格高洁）。～池。 * 中国少数民族，主要分布于广西壮族自治区和湖南、云南、广东、贵州等省。 ～族

precious jade

Structure

瑶 graph

Related substructures

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Precursors

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 ->
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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