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Definition
guān:* 觀看，細看。 * 觀察；察看。 * 觀賞；觀摩。 * 示範；顯示。 * 容飾；形態。 * 景象，情景。如：奇觀；壯觀；大觀。 * 遊玩；遊覽。 * 對事物的認識或看法。如：人生觀；世界觀。 * 佛教用語。觀察妄惑的智力。 * 多。 * 六十四卦之一，卦形為䷓，坤下巽上。 guàn:* 古代宮門外的望樓，亦稱為闕。 * 京觀。古代戰勝者為炫耀武功而把敵人屍首收集起來，封土成為高塚，亦省稱觀。 * 樓臺。 * 祀神的高樓。 * 道教的廟宇。唐劉禹錫 * 古國名，漢以後改作縣名。在今山東省西部聊城市西南，與河南省濮陽市毗連。 * 水名。➊觀水，即今灌江，源出廣西壯族自治區灌陽縣西南；東北流經全州縣合于湘水。 * 姓
see, observe, view; appearance
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
Oracle Bone Script
c. 1300–1050 BCE (Late Shang)
Inscriptions carved on turtle plastrons and animal bones for divination and record-keeping in the late Shang royal court; the oldest large attested corpus of written Chinese.Wikipedia ->
Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
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 ->
Qin Script
c. 475–206 BCE (Qin, Warring States → Qin dynasty)
Qin-area character forms attested on bamboo/wood slips (e.g., Shuihudi, deposited 217 BCE), overlapping chronologically with the standardization of seal script and the emergence of clerical tendencies.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 ->
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 ->
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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