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.