Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Amazing Chinese Characters (610) Peck - 啄

The big seal script of character Peck is


The left is character Mouth (Post 16), the right is character Skeleton (Post 607). The meaning of the character is that a bird uses its hard beak to peck food, like woodpecker pecks tree to get insects. 


The small seal script of character Peck is


Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Peck is


Similar to older scripts.

The Pinyin of character Peck is Zhuo2.




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