The shell bone script of At or Similar Prepositions is
an ancient wind instrument made from bamboo.
The horizontal lines are bamboo tubes, and the vertical bent line is the blowpipe.
There is another shell bone script of the character
The left top is mouth (see Post 152), the left outside is the bamboo tubes or other materials, inside is the music wind tubes (the script we talked above), the right part is a hand playing the sound holes. The 于 inside is free reed.
The bronze script of the character is
similar to shell bone script.
The big seal script of the character is
similar to older scripts.
The small seal script of the character is
the blowpipe becomes two turning curves, but the top two short horizontal lines are not connected, which some experts think that the character is Deficit or Deficiency: the air flow is not strong enough to make sound. I will discuss the character Deficit in a different post.
The other script for the music instrument is
a bamboo head is added over the 亏 to indicate that is made from bamboo, which is instrument, not an adjective.
The clerical script of the character is
similar to older scripts except small seal script. Right now the meaning of the character is not music instrument any more.
Another clerical script of the character is
which is the wind music instrument, the original meaning of the character.
The song typeface of the character is
The pinyin of both character is Yu2.
Let's take a look another character with the same meaning.
The bronze script of the character is
The left is a bird, the right is a person who flys as a bird.
The big seal script of the character
The left is character Square, which should be a mistakenly written for the bird, we can see some similarity between the two. The right top is character Person, the bottom 二 is the sky or clouds (Post 206). The character means that a person flys in the sky above the clouds like a bird.
The small seal script of the character is
The left is similar to shell bone script, the right is similar to big seal script.
The clerical script of the character is
Similar to big seal script.
The song typeface of the character is
於
Same as the clerical script, which is the traditional character for 于.
The Pinyin of the character is Yu3.
The meaning of character 於 gradually become At, On, Of, To, From, In, and many other Prepositions. Because its pronunciation is same as character 于, so it has replaced the character in most of times in traditional Chinese. However, in simplified Chinese, 于 substitutes 於, the latter is eliminated. We can't say that 于 is simplified form of 於, because both existed since shell bone script. They just merged into 于 in simplified Chinese.
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