樂
Definition
lè:* 歡喜,快活;快~。~境。~融融。~不可支。其~無窮。~觀(精神愉快,對事物的發展充滿信心)。~天(安於自己的處境而沒有任何憂慮)。 * 使人快樂的事情。 取~。逗~。 * 對某事甘心情願。 ~此不疲。~善好( hào )施。 * 笑。 這事太可~了。 yuè:* 聲音,和諧成調的。 音~。聲~。~池。~音(有一定頻率,和諧悅耳的聲音)。~歌(①音樂與歌曲;②有音樂伴奏的歌曲)。~正(周代樂官之長)。~府(原是中國漢代朝廷的音樂官署,主要任務是採集民間詩歌和樂曲;後世把這類民歌或文人類比的作品亦稱作"樂府")。 * 姓。 yào:* 喜好、欣賞。用於文言文。 知者~水,仁者~山。 lào:* 地名用字。 河北省樂亭、山東省樂陵
happy, glad; enjoyable; music
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 ->
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 ->
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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