Unicode: U+7B3A

Pinyin: jiān

Definition

* 注释。 ~注。 * 小幅华贵的纸张,古时用以题咏或写书信。 便~。信~。 * 书信。 ~札。~牍。华~。 * 文体名,书札、奏记一类。 ~奏。奏~(多呈皇后、太子、诸王)

note, memo; stationery; comments

Structure

Related substructures

Precursors

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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