Unicode: U+8859

Pinyin: yǔ yá yù yú

Definition

* 旧时官署之称。 公~。~门。~参( cān )(官吏到上司衙门,排班参见,禀白公事)。~役。 * 唐代皇帝前殿:"元和十五年正月……群臣始朝于宣政~"。 * 排列成行的事物。 槐~。柳~

public office; official residence

Structure

衙 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 ->
27_8859
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 ->
91_EB7F91_EB80
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 ->
81_EDE8

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