Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Amazing Chinese Characters (602) Neighborhood - 邻(鄰)

  The big seal script of character Neighborhood is

The top is character Hot (Post 185), which contains two character Fire (Post 26)


The bottom are two feet. 

The character means that the place where is bonfire is just walking distance, which of course is the neighborhood in the ancient time when people shared the bonfire.

The small seal script of character Neighborhood is


The left is similar to big seal script, the right is character Village (Post 561), where people reside in. 

The clerical script of character Neighborhood is


The left top is character Rice - 米 (Post 163), which is totally wrong from the original meaning. It may look like a little bit the character Hot - 炎? The right part is called Right Ear Radical, meaning place where people reside.

The traditional song typeface of character Neighborhood is 


Same as clerical script.

The simplified song typeface of character Neighborhood is


The left is character Order - 令 (Post 152), nothing to do with neighborhood, only pronunciation is same. This is very bad simplification.

The Pinyin of character Neighborhood is Lin3.





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