Amazing Chinese Characters (651) Path between Fields - 塍

The bronze script of character Path between Fields is 

The left is character Boat (Post 117), the right top is a rudder, the middle are two hands, and the bottom is character Soil (Post 223). The first three parts form character I (Emperor self Claim - Post 431).

The shell bone script of character I (Emperor self Claim)

Plus the character Soil means that the Ridge Emperor walks: the path between fields. 

The King or Emperor divides the fields for people who got which field, or the ownership of the field is confirmed by the King.

The big seal script of character Path between Fields is

The left is Radical Moon, which should be character Boat.  It is a mistakenly written. The right top is character Rice, which may be mistake, may not. The right middle are two hands, and right bottom is Soil. The top right is like character Rice as following,

Not exactly same, but similar. The field is rice field, which may mean that.

The small seal script of character Path between Fields is

The left is character Boat, which is right. The right top is character Fire, which is different from rudder or rice, it may be a mistake because the Fire looks like Rice, same as in small seal scripts of character Success (Post 650) and Soar (Post 432).

The clerical script of character Path between Fields is

The left is character Moon, which is wrong. The right top is simplified of combination of character Fire and two hands, the bottom is character Soil.

The Pinyin of the character is Cheng2.

The character is not used often anymore.