Thursday, February 9, 2023

Amazing Chinese characters (569) Frugal - 俭(儉)

 The big seal script of character Frugal is


The left is character Person, the right is character Everyone Agrees - 僉(佥) which means Everyone Agrees on something or someone.Here is to examine someone and give an evaluation on his behavior and moral characters. Because in ancient time, the material poverty, therefore frugal was the most important character for a public person. 

The small seal script of character Frugal is


Similar to older scripts.

The clerical script of character Frugal is


The left is Radical Person, the right is character Everyone Agrees.

The Pinyin of the character is Jian3.
 


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