Unicode: U+9999

Pinyin: xiāng

Definition

* 气味好闻,与"臭"相对。 ~味。~醇。芳~。清~。 * 舒服。 睡得~。 * 味道好。 这鱼做得真~。 * 受欢迎。 这种货物在农村~得很。 * 称一些天然或人造的有香味的东西。 麝~。灵猫~。龙涎~。檀~。沉~。 * 旧时用以形容女子事物或作女子的代称。 ~闺。~艳。 * 祭祖、敬神所烧的用木屑搀上香料做成的细条。 ~火。烧~拜佛。~炉。~烛。 * 姓

fragrant, sweet smelling, incense

Structure

香 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 ->
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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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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