Unicode: U+856D

Pinyin: xiāo

Definition

* 香蒿;艾蒿。 * 冷落;淒涼。晋劉伶 * 蕭灑;悠閑。清顧炎武 * 騷然;擾亂。 * 斜出。 * 肅敬。 * 古國名。春秋時宋的附庸,滅于楚。地在今安徽省蕭縣西北。 * 縣名。在安徽省北端,東鄰江蘇省,西接河南省。秦置縣。 * 姓

common artemisia; sighing of wind; mournful; dejected

Structure

蕭 graph

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