Amazing Chinese Characters (475) Garden - 甫/圃

 The shell bone script of character Garden is

The top is seedling, the bottom is nursery pot. But some people think that the bottom is field because the character field is 田, and the seedlings are in the field most of times. 

The bronze script of the character is

The top is seedling, the bottom is a container made from rattan. Some people believe that it is a bucket, I don't think so. Because it doesn't look like a bucket, and it is impossible to make a bucket without leaking water in 3500+ years ago. 

The big seal script of the character is

Similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of the character is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of the character is

The top seedling 山 changed to one long horizontal line plus a dot, which is not pictography any more. 

The song typeface of the character is

甫

Same as the clerical script. 

The Pinyin of 甫 is Fu3.

The character 甫 is not used alone right now, only as a part of compound characters. The original Garden meaning is replaced by character 圃.

The evolution of character 圃 as the following,

The bronze script of the character 圃

Just give a box surrounding the shell bone script of character 甫 above, which makes sense because Garden is surrounded by fence.

The big seal script of the character 圃 is 

Put big seal script of 甫 inside of a closed fence.

The small seal script of 圃 is

甫 + a fence.

The clerical script of 圃 is

Similar to older scripts, 甫 is surrounded by a square fence.

The pinyin of 圃 is Pu3. 

 圃 is used alone or with other character to represent Garden right now,