Friday, January 6, 2023

Amazing Chinese Characters (558) Specialty - 专(專)

 The bronze script of character Specialty is

The top is a spindle, the bottom is a hand. Ancient people make textile linen with spinning spindle, which is a specialty, a very skillful job.

The big seal script of character Specialty is


Similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of character Specialty is
Similar to big seal script except the bottom part with extra horizontal short line, but still means Hand.

The clerical script of character Specialty is

The top is similar to older scripts, the bottom is character Inch -  寸, original means Hand.

The traditional song typeface is
Same as the clerical script.

The simplified song typeface is
It is from cursive script, completely lost the original pictography of the character.

The Pinyin of the character is Zhuan1.





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