The big seal script of character Ocher is
The left is character Crimson (Post 272), the right one is character -ist, -or, -er (Post 220). Crimson means a person was on fire, and the right one means fire. Therefore, the character means Ocher, the over burned color, or the Ocher pigment used in Chinese painting.Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Amazing Chinese Characters (640) Ocher - 赭
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Amazing Chinese Characters (639) Room - 屋
The big shell script of character Room is
The top is character Body (Post 423), the bottom is character To (Post 298). Body means people who go to a room.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Amazing Chinese Characters (638) Embarrassed - 尬
The big seal script of character Embarrassed is
The left is character Nine (Post 443)Amazing Chinese Characters (637) Fall Sleep - 寐
The big seal script of character Fall Sleep is
The uptown U is a house, the left under the ceiling is character Bed Board (Post 635), plus a 一 on top, become character Ill, but here is not ill, is lying down on bed. The right part under ceiling is character Not Yet (Post 338), which also means "Future". There is no person, but there is bed, the character Not Yet means some situation not sure, not clear, blurred. When people fall sleep, their minds go to dream where nothing is real, nothing is clear, similar to the uncertain future.The clerical script of character Fall Sleep is
The top is Radical House, the bottom are characters Bed Board, and Not Yet. The 一 on top of Not Yet missing, most likely is to eliminate intentionally.Saturday, November 11, 2023
Amazing Chinese Characters (636) Scables - 疥
The big seal script of character Scables is
The left is character Bed Board (Post 635) + the top short horizontal line means Ill or Disease. Ill people normally lays on bed with a headboard to prevent the patient falling down. the inside is character Boundary (Post 270). The scables is skin disease. Skin is a boundary of body. The character is Disease + Boundary.
The small seal script of character Scables is
Similar to big seal script, the big difference is the character Person under the 一 on the right top, but it is small seal script of character Person Post 37).Amazing Chinese Characters (635) Bed Board - 爿
The shell bone script of character Bed Board is
A vertical bed. If we turn it 90 degree, it will be a normal simple bed. Why is it vertical? Because ancient people didn't have paper, they wrote characters on bamboo slips which are very narrow, difficult to draw bed horizontally. They are many other shell bone scripts are vertically drawn.Amazing Chinese Characters (634) Border - 界
The big seal script of character Border is
The left is character Field (Post 3), the right is character Boundary (Post 270). The boundary of field is Border dividing the field.Amazing Chinese Characters (752) Borderland - 陲
The bronze script of character Borderland is The left is cliff, the right is character Hang Down (Post 410). The remote Borderland is area w...
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