Unicode: U+78E4

Pinyin: yǐn yīn

Definition

yīn:* 〔砏~〕见"砏1"。 yǐn:* 象声词,雷声:"声訇~其若震。"

(translated) [砏~] See "砏1"; Onomatopoeia, thunder, e.g., "sound hōng~, as if shaking."

Structure

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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 ->
45_E653
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 ->
33_E11D33_E11F33_E11E33_E11C33_E11B33_E12933_E12A33_E12333_E12033_E12133_E12733_E12833_E12533_E12633_E12433_E12233_E12B33_E12C33_E12D
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 ->
27_6BB7
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 ->
84_E026

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC