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.