Sunday, July 16, 2023

Amazing Chinese characters (604) Young - 幼

 The shell bone script of character Young is

The top is character Power or Strength (Post 168), which is a plow. Hanging on the plow is character Give (Post 597), which is spider silk. Young kids are very weak, their strength is like spider silk, couldn't hold anything at all. 

The bronze script of character Young is 


The plow is across the spider silk, or both sides of plow have spider silk.

The small seal script of character Young is


The spider silk is on the left, the plow is on the right.

The clerical script of character Young is 


The left is character Youngest (Post 407), the right is character Power or Strength. 

The Pinyin of character Young is You4.

幼 means very young, normally from 1 year baby to 6 years old, occasionally could go 12.  


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