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Definition
* 本色，白色。 ～服。～丝。 * 颜色单纯，不艳丽。 ～净。～淡。～妆。～雅。～描。 * 洁白的绢。 尺～（用绸子写的信）。 * 本来的，质朴、不加修饰的。 ～质。～养。～性。～友（真诚淳朴的朋友）。 * 物的基本成分。 色～。毒～。维生～。 * 向来。 ～来。～常。～志。平～。 * 白，不付代价。 ～餐。 * 非肉类的食品，与"荤"相对。 ～食。～席。～油
white (silk); plain; vegetarian; formerly; normally
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 ->
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 ->
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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