藻
Definition
* 隐花植物的一大类，无根、茎、叶等部分的区别，有叶绿素可以自己制造养料，种类很多，海水和淡水里都有，极少数可生活在陆地的阴湿地方。 水～。海～。小球～。～类植物。 * 泛指生长在水中的植物，亦包括某些水生的高等植物。 狸～。金鱼～。 * 指华丽的文彩、文辞。 ～思（多采的文思）。～丽。～绘（文采）。～井（中国传统建筑物天花板上一方一方的彩画）。～镜（指品评鉴别。亦称"藻鉴"）。辞～。～饰。 * 古代帝王冕上系玉的五彩丝绳。 玉～
splendid, magnificent; algae
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 ->