Saturday, December 23, 2023

Amazing Chinese Characters (649) Dawn - 晓(曉)

 The big seal script of character Dawn is

The left is character Sun - 日 (Post 4), the right is character Emperor Yao - 尧 (Post 612), here it means brick maker using Kiln. In the ancient time, people hunted, picked up fruits, and farming, almost no job requires continuously many days except the kiln work. They worked day and night in turns, they were the people who most likely to see the sun in dawn near the kiln.

The small seal script of character Dawn is


Similar to its big seal script.

The clerical script of character Dawn is

The left is character Sun, the right is character Emperor Yao.

The simplified song typeface is

The right top 垚 is replaced by 戈 without the dot on the top right. It should be from the cursive script, but there is no explanation why cursive script is like that.

The Pinyin of the character is Xiao3.


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