Unicode: U+969C

Pinyin: zhàng zhāng

Definition

* 阻隔,遮挡。 ~蔽。~翳。~碍。故~。~眼法。一叶~目,不见泰山。 * 中国秦、汉两代边塞上作防御用的城堡:"出五原塞数百里,远者千里,筑城~列亭,至庐朐"。 * 用作遮蔽、防卫的东西。 屏~。 * 古同"幛",画轴

separate; shield; barricade

Structure

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Related substructures

Precursors

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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Clerical Script
c. 300 BCE–220 CE (emerged late Warring States/Qin; dominant Han)
A practical script that evolved from late Warring States/Qin writing; it matured and became dominant in the Han dynasty, favoring faster, more rectilinear strokes.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