钟
Definition
* 金属制成的响器，中空，敲时发声。 警～。编～（古代乐器。把一系列铜制的钟挂在木架上组成，用小木槌击奏。各时代形制大小不一，枚数也不同）。～鼎（古铜器总称，上面铭刻文字）。 * 计时的器具。 ～表（钟和表的总称）。座～。～鸣漏尽（晨钟已鸣，夜漏将尽。喻年届迟幕）。 * 指某个一定的时间，小时。 ～头（小时，如"开了一个～～的会"）。 * 杯子。 * 集中，专一。 ～情（感情专注）。～爱（特别爱）。～灵毓秀（指美好的自然环境产生优秀的人物）
clock; bell
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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