Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Amazing Chinese Characters (504) Its or That - 其

 The shell bone script of character Its or That is


which is a basket, most likely made from bamboo.

The bronze script of the character is


The top is same as shell bone script, the one line is a board on the bottom basket, the two dots are two hands carrying the basket.

The big seal script of the character is


Similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of the character is

Similar to bronze and big seal scripts, but there are two X in the basket.

The clerical script of the character is

The top has no X inside, but two horizontal lines, the bottom has a long horizontal line, not good pictographic anymore, but still some similar to old scripts.

The Pinyin of the character is Qi2.

其 doesn't mean basket anymore, but Its, or That, or his, or her, or such, etc. It is used most in proverbs, or words with two characters.



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