Saturday, July 3, 2021

Amazing Chinese characters (425) Heavy - 重

 The shell bone script of character Heavy is


The left is a person (Post 37), the right one is a package which is heavy to the person who carries.

The bronze script of the character is


the left is a person, the right one is a heavy package.

Another bronze script of the character is


The person and the package are overlapped now, the bottom is character Soil (Post 223), which is heavy.

The big seal script of the character is
Similar to bronze script. We can see the character Person

in the character.

The small script of the character is


Similar to the bronze and big seal scripts.

The clerical script of the character is
Some similarity to older script.

Song typeface of the character is
Same as clerical script.

Its Pinyin is Zhong4.

The character has another meaning: Repetition (Pinyin: Chong2), which I don't know where is from.


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