中

阳

Unicode: U+9633

Pinyin: yáng

Definition

* 明亮。 * 中国古代哲学认为宇宙中通贯所有物质的两大对立面之一，与"阴"相对：一阴一～谓之道。阴～二气。图形：⚊（U+268A）。 * 指"太阳" ～光。～面。～历。向～。夕～。 * 山的南面或水的北面（多用于地名） 衡～（在中国湖南省衡山之南）。洛～（在中国河南省洛河之北）。 * 温暖。 ～春。 * 外露的，明显的。 ～沟。～奉阴违。 * 凸出的。 ～文图章。 * 关于活人的。 ～间（人世间）。～宅。～寿。 * 带正电的。 ～极。～电。～离子。 * 男性生殖器。 ～痿。 * 古同"佯"，假装。 * 姓

"male" principle; light; sun

Structure

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