省
Definition
shěng:* 地方行政区域。 ～份。～会。 * 节约，不费。 ～钱。～事。～吃俭用。 * 简易，减免。 ～略。～称。～写。 * 中国古官署名。 中书～（①魏晋开始设置，总管国家政务，历代有所沿革，唐初设"中书、尚书、门下"三省共管政事；②元代"中书省"兼管"尚书省"的职权，权更重，成为中央最高的官署，称地方最高行政官署为"行中书省"，简称"省"，是现在"省"的来历）。尚书～。门下～。秘书～。 * 古代称王宫禁地。 ～中。～闼（禁中）。 xǐng:* 检查。 反～（检查自己）。～察（考察）。吾日三～吾身。 * 知觉，觉悟。 ～悟。发人深～。 * 看望父母、尊亲。 ～亲。～视
province; save, economize
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 ->
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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