中

鶨

Unicode: U+9DA8

Pinyin: chuàn zhì

Definition

chuàn:* 古书上说的一种勾嘴鸟。亦称"痴鸟"。 zhì:* 古同"雉"，野鸡

(translated) a type of hooked-beaked bird mentioned in ancient texts; also known as "chi niao"; anciently the same as "雉" (zhì), pheasant

Structure

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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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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