Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Amazing Chinese Characters (646) Lack - 缺

 The big seal script of character Lack is

The left is character Can - 缶

which is a Chinese medicine mortar


In order to see what the mortar is like inside, we can see the image below


The front far left is the mortar with a lid, the rest are mortars without lid.

The right part of the character is character Odd Jade (Post 644), which means defect here. 

The character means a defected mortar or bowl or any similar stuff, one or more piece(s) missing or broken or lacking.



The small seal script of character Lack is 

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Lack is


The left is Mortar, the right is simplified character Odd Jade.

The Pinyin of the character is Que1.

Character Lack - 缺 could mean something partially missing or lost partially, or something missing (you should have, but never have had).









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