Monday, December 4, 2023

Amazing Chinese Characters (642) Sell - 贩

 The big seal script of character Sell is


The left is character Shell (Post 194), the right is character Anti-, Against, Reverse (Post 430). Shell was currency in ancient time, "return currency" means that I had the shell, but I used to buy something, right now I sell something to get the currency (shell) back to me. 

The small seal script of character Sell is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Sell is
The left is character Shell, the right is character Reverse.

The simplified song typeface is
The character on the left is changed from traditional song typeface 貝 to simplified song typeface 贝. The right is same, no change.

The Pinyin of the character is Fan4.



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