Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Amazing Chinese Characters (640) Ocher - 赭

 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.


The small seal script of character Ocher is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Ocher is
Changed a lot, but still the Crimson is on the left, and the -ist, -or, -er is on the right.

The pinyin of the character is Zhe3.





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