阴
Definition
* 中国古代哲学认为宇宙中通贯所有物质的两大对立面诸一，与"阳"相对：～阳。一～一阳谓之道。～差阳错。～盛阳衰。～虚生热。图形：⚋（U+268B）。 * 指"月亮" 太～（月亮）。～历。 * 带负电的。 ～电。～极。～离子。 * 云层较厚，遮住阳光。 ～沉。～雨。～郁（亦指忧郁，不开朗）。～霾。 * 不见阳光，亦指不见阳光的地方。 ～面。～干（ gān ）。～凉，～影。山～（山的北面，水的南面）。碑～（碑的背面）。 * 不露出表面的，暗中的。 ～沟。～通（秘密往来）。～私。～功（➊暗中做的好事；➋迷信指被阴间记功的好事）。 * 背地捣鬼，险恶。 ～谋。～毒。 * 指冥间。 ～间。～司。～曹地府。 * 凹进的。 ～文图章。～识（即阴文）。 * 指时间。 光～。惜寸～。 * 生殖器。 ～部。～道。～茎。～囊。 * 姓
"female" principle; dark; secret
Structure
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 ->
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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