Amazing Chinese Characters (595) Kind - 般

 The shell bone script of character Kind is

The left is character Boat (Post 117), the right is character Spear (Post 590). Soldiers use spear to drive a boat where many stuffs are loaded. The spear is used as weapon and boat pole. The stuffs are belong to King or very high rank official because normal people didn't have boat, not much stuffs, not be able to order soldiers to move stuffs by boat.

The bronze script of character Kind is

Similar to shell bone script.

The big seal script of character Kind is

Similar to older scripts.

Small seal script of character Kind is

The character Boat on the left changed a little bit, the right is character Spear.

The clerical script of character Kind is 

The left is character Boat -舟, the right is character Spear - 殳.

The Pinyin of the character is Ban1.

The meaning of the character changed from Moving to Kind,  people created a new character 搬 to keep the Moving meaning. The left of 搬 is a hand radical, the right is original 般.