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茊

Unicode: U+830A

Pinyin: zī cí

Definition

* 古同"兹"

Semantic variant of 茲: now, here; this; time, year

Structure

茊 graph

Related substructures

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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 ->
42_E13A42_E13B42_E13C42_E13D42_E13E42_E13F42_E14042_E14142_E14242_E14342_E14442_E14542_E14642_E14742_E14842_E13142_E13242_E13342_E13442_E13542_E13642_E13742_E13842_E139
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 ->
31_F6DC31_F6DF31_F6DD31_F6E231_F6F131_F6DB31_F6DE31_F6E031_F6E431_F6E131_F6E531_F6EB31_F6E931_F6E331_F6E631_F6E731_F6EA31_F6EC31_F6F031_F6EE31_F6EF31_F6ED31_F70531_F70631_F70731_F708
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 ->
55_E3E6
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 ->
71_E3F8
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_8332

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