Sunday, October 22, 2023

Amazing Chinese Characters (633)Hat - 弁

 The bronze script of character Hat is

The middle is a hat, the sides are two hands holding the hat, or wearing the hat on head, or taking off the hat from the head. The hat means the hat in ancient time hat, not that today. The character has not used alone as hat for long time. The ancient time, not everyone had a hat, the person who had a hat was rich and high level in the society. In addition, the hat was very exquisite, and expensive, people took the hat carefully. 

The big seal script of character Hat is

The top is the hat, the bottom are two hands. 

The small seal script of character Hat is
The top is hat, the bottom are two hands.

The clerical script of character Hat

Not pictography anymore, but we can tell that the top is the hat, the bottom are two hands.

The Pinyin of the character is Bian4.

The character 弁 used most often right now is 马弁(horse - hat), not the hat wearing on horse head, but an orderly who severed for high ranked official, including taking care of his horse and hat. 







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