Amazing Chinese Characters (583) Endocarp - 核

 The big seal script of character Endocarp is

The left is character Wood, here means Tree,  the right is character 12th Earthly Branch (Post 582), which is the hard part of an animal foot like bone, or hooves. Here is endocarp: the hard part inside the fruit.

The small seal script of character Endocarp is

The left is character Wood, the right part is character 12th Earthly Branch, here means hard part. Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Endocarp is

The left is Radical Wood, the right is character 12th Earthly Branch, but changed too much to be any similarity to older script.

The Pinyin of the character is He2.

The meaning of the character means originally Endocarp, right now also means Atom Nuclear.