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Definition
jiāng:* 快要。 ～要。～至。～来。即～。 * 带领，扶助。 ～雏。扶～。～军。 * 拿，持。 ～心比心。 * 把。 ～门关好。 * 下象棋时攻击对方的"将"或"帅"。 * 用言语刺激。 你别～他的火儿了。 * 保养。 ～养。～息。 * 兽类生子。 ～驹。～小猪。 * 顺从。 ～就（迁就，凑合）。～计就计。 * 又，且。 ～信～疑。 * 助词，用在动词和"出来"、"起来"、"上去"等中间。 走～出来。 * 刚，刚刚。 ～～。～才。 * 姓。 jiàng:* 军衔的一级，在校以上，泛指高级军官。 ～领。 * 统率，指挥。 ～百万之众
will, going to, future; general
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 ->
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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