贵
Definition
* 价钱高，与"贱"相对。 ～贱（ａ．价格的高低；ｂ．指人的地位高低；ｃ．方言，无论如何）。春雨～如油。 * 指地位高。 ～族。～戚。～望（尊贵的门第和声望）。 * 敬辞，称与对方有关的事物。 ～国。～庚（请问别人年龄）。～姓。～干（ gàn ）（问人要做什么）。 * 特别好的，重要的。 ～重（ zhòng ）。珍～。尊～。民为～。 * 值得看重，重视。 可～。 * 指中国贵州省。 云～高原。 * 姓
expensive, costly, valuable
Structure
Related substructures
Precursors
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 ->
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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