Unicode: U+939A

Pinyin: chuí

Definition

* 同"锤"

hammer, mallet; club

Structure

鎚 graph

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 ->
41_E8E541_E8E641_E8E741_E8E841_E8E941_E8EA41_E8EB41_E8EC41_E8ED41_E8EE41_E8EF41_E8F041_E8F141_E8F241_E8F341_E8F4
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_E8A431_E8C131_E8A731_E8A831_E8A631_E8A331_E8A231_E8B831_E8A931_E8AC31_E8AB31_E8BB31_E8AA31_E8B131_E8AD31_E8B231_E8B331_E8BC31_E8BA31_E8A531_E8B531_E8B431_E8AE31_E8AF31_E8B631_E8B031_E8BF31_E8B931_E8BE31_E8BD31_E8C031_E8B7
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_E17971_E17771_E178
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_8FFD
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 ->
85_E95E

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