Sunday, January 15, 2023

Amazing Chinese Characters (560) Spherical - 团(團)

The big seal script of character Spherical is

The inside 

is character Specialty, original meaning is a hand (bottom) holds a spindle for spinning). 
The outside is big box holding the spindle, which is spherical shape.
The small seal script of character Spherical is

Similar to shell bone script.
The clerical script of the character is
Some similarity to small seal script, the difference is that the lines in small seal script are rounded, but straight in clerical script.
The traditional song typeface of character Spherical is

Same as clerical script.
The simplified song typeface of character Spherical is
The inside is character  – Talent, very strange replacement for . It is not only no similarity on the appearance, but not in the meaning too, just reduced the number of strokes. It is bad simplification.
 The pinyin of the character is Tuan2.





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