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.