Saturday, December 11, 2021

Amazing Chinese Characters (463) Latitude - 经(經)

 The bronze script of character Latitude is

left is a radical of silk which means anything related to silk or cloth, the right one 

is a shuttle of weaver with vertical cotton or silk thread.

There is a dot near right bottom, which is an indicative sign to emphasize the point: the handle of the shuttle. Here is the key part of the shuttle. The character means manage, experience, bear, etc.

The big seal script of the character is
similar to the bronze script.

The small seal script of small seal script is
similar to older scripts.

The clerical script of character is
the left is silk radical, the right is the shuttle of weaving.

The traditional song typeface of the character is
Same as the clerical script.

The simplified song typeface of the character is
lost most of pictography.

The pinyin of the character is Jing1.



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