茜
Definition
qiàn:* 茜草。多年生草本。方茎有刺毛，秋天开花，根黄红色，含茜素等，可作红色染料和入药。 * 绛色（深红色）。晋佚名 * 染红。 * 用同"倩"。秀美，生动。元周德清 * 人名用字。 xī:* 人名用字。多用于外国妇女名字的译音。（人名中也有读qiàn的）
madder, rubia cordifolia; reeds
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
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 ->
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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