Amazing Chinese Characters (468) Fear - 畏

 The shell bone script of character Fear is

The right top 田 is a ghost face mask. Let see the shell bone script character Ghost (Post 71). 

The top is a big 田, a skull mask. The bottom is a kneeling down person.

The bottom of character Fear is a standing person. The left is a scepter. A person wears a skull mask or ghost mask, holding a scepter to show a power of super nature, maybe ghost in sacrifice. The appearance is fearful. 

The bronze script of the character is

Similar to shell bone script.

The big seal script of the character is

Similar to big seal script.

The small seal script of the character is

The top is similar to older script. The bottom changes big: the left is scepter, the right is a person.

The clerical script of the character is

The top is similar to older scripts. The bottom has some similarity to small script, but changed big to fit the clerical script writing, especially the falling right stroke which is typical clerical stroke. 

The song typeface of the character is

畏

Same as clerical script.

The Pinyin of the character is Wei4.