Saturday, November 11, 2023

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. 

The small seal script of character Border is

Similar to the big seal script.

The clerical script of character Border is
The top 田 is character Field, and the bottom 介 is character Boundary. This structure of the script is different from the older scripts which is that the Field is no the left, and the Boundary is on the right. 

The song typeface has both structures characters: 界,畍, they have the same meaning. But simplified song typeface abandoned the 畍.

The pinyin of the character is Jie4. 


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