中

讯

Unicode: U+8BAF

Pinyin: xùn

Definition

* 问，特指法庭中的审问。 审～。刑～。～问。 * 消息，信息。 通～。音～。～息。 * 告，陈诉："夫也不良，歌以～之。" * 中国西周时对俘虏的称谓。 执～（意思是捉到俘虏）。 * 古同"迅"，迅速

inquire; ask; examine; reproach

Structure

讯 graph

Related substructures

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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 ->
41_EC92
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 ->
31_EBC331_EBC431_EBCB31_EBC631_EBC031_EBC134_F21134_F21031_EBC231_EBC831_EBC931_EBC531_EBBF31_EBC7
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 ->
71_E22B71_E22C71_E22D
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_8A0A27_E1ED
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_F0C081_F0C181_F0C281_F0C381_F0C481_F0C5

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