Amazing Chinese Characters (544) Extend - 申

 The shell bone script of character Extend is

Which is lightning in the sky, the top hook and the bottom tail-alike who may be believed to be a divine with superpower. 

The bronze script of character Extend is

Similar to shell bone script.

It is a part of character Electricity (Post 270). We can see the bronze script of character Electricity

The lower half is character Lightning, the top half is character Rain (Post 206). 

The big seal script of character Extend is

Similar to older scripts, which is the bottom half of character Electricity

The small seal script of character Extend is

The middle lightning is pull straight, and two on the sides may be the hands of the divine. 

The small seal script of character Electricity

Just changed the straight line to be a little bit bent.

The clerical script of character Extend is

Similar to small seal script with one disconnect space of the two horizontal short lines.

The Pinyin of the character is Shen1.

The character is used often in words with another character for Apply - 申请，Report - 申报，Appeal - 申诉，etc. Anyway, asking the boss or authority for help.