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Definition
kōng:* 不包含什么，没有内容。 ～洞（ａ．没有内容的；ｂ．物体内部的窟窿）。～泛。～话。～旷。～乏。～～如也。～前绝后。凭～（无根据）。真～（没有任何东西）。 * 没有结果的，白白地。 ～跑了一趟。～口无凭。 * 离开地面的，在地上面的地方。 ～军。～气。～投。～运。 kòng:* 使空，腾出来。 ～一个格。～出一间房来。 * 闲着，没被利用的。 ～白。～地。～额。～房。～缺。 * 亏欠。 亏～。 kǒng:* 古同"孔"，洞
empty, hollow, bare, deserted
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
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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