白
Definition
* 雪花或乳汁那样的颜色。 ~色。~米。 * 明亮。 ~昼。~日做梦。 * 清楚。 明~。不~之冤。 * 纯洁。 一生清~。~璧无瑕。 * 空的,没有加上其它东西的。 空~。~卷。 * 没有成就的,没有效果的。 ~忙。~说。 * 没有付出代价的。 ~吃~喝。 * 陈述。 自~。道~(亦称"说白"、"白口")。 * 与文言相对。 ~话文。 * 告语。 告~(对公众的通知)。 * 丧事。 红~喜事(婚事和丧事)。 * 把字写错或读错。 ~字(别字)。 * 政治上反动的。 ~匪。~军。 * 中国少数民族,主要分布于云南省。 ~族。~剧。 * 姓
white; pure, unblemished; bright
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 ->