茶
Definition
* 常绿灌木，叶长椭圆形，有锯齿，经加工制为饮料，就是茶叶；秋末开花，白色；种子可榨油；木质致密，供雕刻用。 ～树。～农。 * 特指"茶叶" 绿～。红～。花～。沱～。龙井～。乌龙～。 * 用茶叶沏成的饮料。 ～水。～饭。～点（茶水、点心）。～话会。～博士（善于烹茶的人，亦指卖茶的人或茶馆侍者）。～余饭后。 * 泛指某些饮料。 ～汤。面～。果～。 * 特指"茶点" 早～。晚～
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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 ->
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 ->
Liushutong Seal Forms
Pre-Qin to Han seal-type forms (≤220 CE) / compiled 1661 (Min Qiji); collated and printed 1720 (Bi Hongshu)
A ten-volume compendium of seal-script variants arranged by the rhymes of Hongwu Zhengyun: each head character gives its Shuowen small seal form, then variants gathered from guwen, zhouwen, bronze inscriptions and Qin–Han seals. Long a standard reference for seal carvers, but the forms are compiled rather than excavated and were collected with little vetting, so many are of doubtful authenticity.Wikimedia Commons ->