齿
Definition
* 人和动物嘴里咀嚼食物的器官（通常称"牙"） 牙～。～腔。～髓。～龈。～冷（笑必开口，笑的时间长了，牙齿就会感到冷。因谓讥笑于人，如"令人～～"）。 * 排列像牙齿形状的东西。 ～轮。锯～。梳子～儿。 * 因幼马每岁生一齿，故以齿计算牛马的岁数，亦指人的年龄。 马～徒增（旧时自谦年长无能）。 * 并列。 不～（不能同列或不与同列，表示鄙弃）。 * 谈到，提及。 ～及。不足～数。 * 触。 ～剑（触剑受刀，指被杀或自刎）
teeth; gears, cogs; age; simplified form of the KangXi radical number 211
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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