Amazing Chinese Characters (608) Large Grave - 冢

 The bronze script of character Large Grave is

The inside-left is character Skeleton  (Post 607), which is similar to character Pig 

If you look carefully, you could find that the character Skeleton has an extra short line on the bottom of the middle vertical curve, pointing to left. It is a trotter, mainly composed of bone.

The outer-right is a cover.

The character means that a large grave covering bones, here are human skeleton. In the ancient time, after people with power or high rank officials died, they were buried very deep and a large grave on the top to show their important not only when they were alive, but even after they died.

The big seal script of character Large Grave is

The cover is almost a circle, inside is character Skeleton.

The small seal script of character Large Grave is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Large Grave is

The bottom is character Skeleton, the top is the cover, much smaller cover because it can write faster.

Wang-Zhaojun (王昭君）Grave

The Pinyin of the character is Zhong3.

The character is not used often right now.