Amazing Chinese Characters (660) Whole - 弥

The bronze script of character Whole is

The left is character Bow

The right is character You, means big arrow. If you have a bow and the biggest row in the world, you will get the whole world. 

The big seal script of character Whole is

The left is character Bow, the right is character Sun on the top, and You below the Sun. To conquer the world in sunny day, or after having conquered the world, the sun is shining everywhere. 

The small seal script of character Whole is

The left is Bow, the right top is You as the one below

But there are three horizontal lines, which may be the base where the big arrow stands.

The clerical script of character Whole is

The left is Bow, the right is You - a big arrow.

The simplified song typeface of character Whole is

The left is Bow, the right is simplified song typeface of character You, lost pictography.

The Pinyin of the character is Mi2.

Amazing Chinese Characters (659) You (Old Fashion) - 汝

 The shell bone script of character You is

The left is character Water, the right is character Woman. A washerwoman was a labor. People used washerwoman to be You for those who are in low society position, which is different from the character 尔, which is King or Generals who are in high society position. 

The small seal script of character You is

The left is character Water, the right is character Woman.

The clerical script of character You is

The left is Radical Three Drops, the right is character Woman. 

The pinyin of the character is Ru3.

Amazing Chinese Characters（658）Russia - 俄

 The big seal script of Russia is

The left is character People (Post 37), the right is character I or Me, meaning rammer. The character original means something happened in very short time, such as lightening. Ramming is an activity of very quick action, but repeated many times. The character right now has ben used for Russia since Qing Dynasty. Why? Russian may do ramming often?

The small seal script of Russia is

The left is character People, the right is character I or Me, meaning Rammer here. 

The clerical script of character Russia is

The left is Radical People, and the right is character I or Me, meaning rammer here.

The pinyin of the character is E2.

Amazing Chinese Characters (657) Young Girl - 娥

The shell bone script of character Young Girl is

The top is the character I or Me (Post 654), meaning people who do ramming. The bottom 

is character Woman (Post 20).

The character means a woman who does the ramming work, which is required a strong and energetic, normally young girls. 

The big seal script of character Young Girl is

The left is character Woman, the right is character I or Me.

The small seal script of character Young Woman is

The left is Woman, the right is character I or Me.

The clerical script of character Young Woman is

The left is Radical Woman, the right is character I or Me.

The pinyin of the character is E2.

The character now means Young Girl, normally is girls from low income families. Also it means good looking girl. 

Amazing Chinese Characters (656) Hungry - 饿

 The big seal script of character Hungry is

The left 

is character Eat (Post 190). 

The right part is character I or Me (Post 654), a tool for ramming, or person who does the ramming work. 

People who did ram in the ancient were poor people, most were slaves, they didn't have enough foods to eat, alway hungry. The character means hungry. 

The small seal script of character Hungry is

The left is Eat, the right is character I or Me, a slave. 

The clerical script of the character Hungry is 

The left is Radical Eat, the right is character I or me. 

The Pinyin of the character is E4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (655) Ancient Rammer - 硪

The shell bone script of character Ancient Rammer is

The two triangles on left top and bottom are rocks or stone, the right part is character I or Me, here is the tool used to ramming the ground. The two triangle stones mean the continuously up and down moving of the rammer, not two stones ramming at the same time.

People believer that similar rammer is still used in China

The rammer discovered in Yellow river

People used this type rammer to reinforce the embankment

It is I can't tell the difference between the shell bone script and the real rammer found in yellow river, and still used today. The ancient rammer might be much different from modern rammer, but the shell bone script is definitely a tool of ramming.

The small seal script of character Ancient Rammer is

The left is character Stone (Post 393), the right is character I or Me, a tool used to ram.

The clerical script of character Ancient Rammer is

The left is Radical Stone, the right is character I or Me.

The Pinyin of the character is Wo4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (654) I or Me - 我

 The shell bone script of character I or Me is 

The vertical long bar with hook is a weapon or tool, the horizontal is a rake. The character means a person who is a labor such as slave in peace time and soldier when outbreak of war. 

Dictionary of Pictography explanation for the character is: a person who hold a big weapon, shouting to show the power. 

The bronze script of character I or Me is

Which is more like a big farm tool, rake connected with knife like plow, a kind of tool.

The small seal script of character I or Me is

The right is similar to same part of bronze script, the left is changed a lot from left part of bronze script, but it means same thing: the rake. 

The clerical script of character I or Me is

Similar to small seal script.

The pinyin of the character is Wo3.

This meaning of the character I or Me is difficult to guess. What I do is to see the meaning of some compound characters with the character 我. You will see in the next a few posts with those compound characters, we then can determine if the meaning of the character "A slave with tool and weapon" is correct or not.

Amazing Chinese Characters (653) Grave - 墓

 The big seal script of character Grave is 

The top 

is character Grass - 草 (Post 49). 

The bottom is character Soil - 土 （Post 223）.

The Grave is a place there is a lot of grass on soil. 

The small seal script of character Grave is

Similar to big seal script, but the two grass in the middle are 45 degree skew lines to give space for the character Soil in the bottom in order to write a compact structure. 

The clerical script of character Grave is

Most U shape lines become straight lines. the pictography is lost.

The Pinyin of character is Mu4. 

Amazing Chinese Characters (652) Wife's Maid - 媵

The bronze script of character Wife's Maid is

In ancient time, the Kings or Tribal Leaders married with wife who had escorting maid(s) coming with her, all the maids are King's, or Tribal Leader's wives but the family status are lower than the formal wife. The maids had to do many works, even some heavy works. The character left + the right is character I or Me Emperor self claim, here are Kings or Tribal Leaders. the middle bottom is character Woman (Post 20). The character means that the King's or Tribal Leader's Lady, or the Woman under the cover of King or Tribal Leader. 

The big seal script of character Wife's Maid is

The left, right top, and middle form character I or Me Emperor self Claim, here means King or Tribal Leader, the right bottom is character Woman.

The small seal script of character Wife's Maid is

Similar structure to big seal script. The left is character Boat which is right, not character Moon like in big seal script, which is wrong. The right top is character Fire, which is wrong. 

The clerical script of character Wife's Maid is

Character I or Me Emperor self Claim + character Woman.

The Pinyin of the character is Ying4.

The character is not used anymore, because it is illegal to have multiple wives.