Sunday, March 12, 2023

Amazing Chinese Characters (571) Taste - 尝(嘗)

 The bronze script of character Taste is


The top is character Eight - 八 (Post 156), which means Divide or Separate. the middle is character Still - 尚 (Post 556), which means Big Hall. The bottom is character Order from King - 旨, which means a sweet taste. The character means that in a big hall, people taste some delicious food. Normally this happens in palace with a very form manner, like King shares the food with ministers. 

The big seal script of character Taste is

Similar to bronze script, except in big seal strokes.

The small seal script of character Taste is
Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of the character Taste is

Top is character Still


Bottom is character Order from King

The traditional song typeface of character Taste is


Very similar to clerical script.

The simplified song typeface of character Taste is


The bottom becomes character Cloud (Post 206), totally lost the pictography, and origin meaning.

The Pinyin of character Taste is Chang1.


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