Unicode: U+9A5B

Pinyin: yì

Definition

* 舊時供傳遞公文的人中途休息、換馬的地方,亦指供傳遞公文用的馬。 ~站。~館。~丞(掌管驛站的官員)。~吏。 * 現為地名用字。 龍泉~(在中國四川省)。 * 古同"繹",絡繹

relay station

Structure

驛 graph

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 ->
27_9A5B
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 ->
93_E81D93_E81E93_E81F
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 ->
84_E1F784_E1F884_E1F984_E1FA84_E1FB84_E1FC

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