Friday, July 9, 2021

Amazing Chinese Characters (428) Internode - 节 (節)

 The bronze script of character Internode is

The top is character Bamboo or Bamboo radical (Post 23), the bottom left is a two internodes section of bamboo, the bottom right is a spoon alike connected to the left.

The big seal script the character is

The top is Bamboo, the bottom left is a bamboo bowl, the bottom right is a person sits there, who is eating or ready to eat the food in bamboo bowl.


Ancient Chinese used the bamboo internode as the bowl.

The small seal script of the character is
Similar to the big seal script on the top, the bottom left changes to an open bottom, and the bottom right changes big, but it is a person just bending very much.

The clerical script of the character is

The top is bamboo, the bottom left is a bamboo bowl but not similar to the older scripts on the bottom, the right one is a simplified person. 

The traditional song typeface of the character is

Very similar to clerical script.

The simplified song typeface of the character is

The top changed to Grass radical, the bottom only keeps the bottom right part of clerical script, which is "person" part, the bamboo bowl disappeared.

The pinyin of the character is Jie2.

The character also means Section, Joint, Knot, and Holiday, etc.

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