Saturday, November 11, 2023

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.

The big seal script of character Bed Board is
Similar to shell bone script, but more rounded, very like a vertical 兀.

The clerical script of character Bed Board is

Some similarity to older scripts.

The Pinyin of character Bed Board is Pan2.

The character is not used alone, but widely exist in the compound characters.










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