Amazing Chinese Characters (650) Success - 胜（勝）

The big seal script of character Success or Successful is

The left is character Boat (Post 117), the right top is a vertical bar with a dot in the middle, here means a rudder, the middle is two hands holding the rudder. The three parts: left, top right, middle right, form character "I or Me - Emperor or King self claim(Post 431). Plus the right bottom which is character Power or Strength (Post 168), we have character Success or Successful. 

The character Emperor or King self claim actually is helmsman who controls the direction of the boat, here implies the direction of the army. The character Power or Strength means that they tried very hard to get success.

The small seal script of character Success or Successful is

Some similar to big seal script, but the top mistakenly becomes character Fire (Post 26), not a rudder. The script is very symmetric. 

There is another small seal script of the character

The left is character Moon (Post 53), or character Meat (Post 252), the right is character Living (Post 352). I don't know where the script came from, and what it means. Anyway, it has nothing to do with success, no relationship to other scripts of the character.

The clerical script of the character Success or Successful is

The left is character Moon, which is obvious a wrong writing. The right top is also wrong writing, no rudder, no hands, only the bottom character Power or Strength is correct.

The simplified song typeface of the character is

which is similar to the second small script above. However, as I mentioned above, this script has nothing to do with the original pictography, and no any relationship or similarity to other scripts, therefore, the song typeface above is strange too.

The Pinyin of the character is Sheng4.