The bronze script of character Wish is
The left is character Display, the right is character Elder Brother, which may be the one who is older than you or other people, has more experience, most respected. He is kneeling in front of a display table with some foods for pray. He is praying for good wish for people he represents.Thursday, February 29, 2024
Amazing Chinese Characters (672) Wish - 祝
Amazing Chinese Characters (671) Raise - 养(養)
The shell bone script of character Raise is
The left is modified character Sheep or Goat, the right is a hand holding a stick. The character means that a shepherd herds sheep with a whip or stick.
The bronze script of character Raise is
Monday, February 26, 2024
Amazing Chinese Characters (670) Latitude - 纬
The big seal script of character Latitude is
The left is character Silk, the right is character Wei, meaning walking around a villege to protect it. The character Latitude means that the horizontal wire in the weaving.Sunday, February 25, 2024
Amazing Chinese Characters (669) Surround - 围/圍
The bronze script of character Surround is
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Amazing Chinese Characters (668) Shan - 陕,Gorge - 峡
The big seal script of character Shan is
The left is cliff, the right is character Clip. There are many ravines in Yellow Plateau where Shan Xi Province is located. The character becomes the abbreviation of Shan Xi Province, but the original meaning of ravine is not known by most of people.Amazing Chinese Characters (667) Coerce - 挟
The big seal script of character Coerce is
The left is character Hand, the right is character Clip. A person is held by two people using their hands, forced to do something he doesn't want.Amazing Chinese Characters (666) Knight - 侠
The big seal script of character Knight is
The left is character People, the right is character Clip. A person who holds two people with his arms, is Knight because he is strong and good at fight.Friday, February 16, 2024
Amazing Chinese Characters (665) Too - 也
The big seal script of character Too is
which is character Snake. The character became character Too. The reason is that there were not enough characters in ancient time, when people needed a character to express Too, Also, As Well, they used character Snake to mean those.Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Amazing Chinese characters (664) Ancient Lapel - 衽
The big seal script of character Ancient Lapel is
Monday, February 5, 2024
Amazing Chinese characters (663) Pregnancy - 妊
The shell bone script of character Pregnancy is
The left is character Woman, the right is character Work. A lady who is loaded with heavy work - pregnancy.Amazing Chinese Characters (662) Person in Charge - 任
The shell bone script of character Person in Charge is
The left is character Person, the right is character Work, a mortise-tenon structure. A person holding the mortise-tenon structure is the one who is in charge because mortise-tenon structure is very complicated, only people who are very good at the structure design and engineering with experience can handle the task.Sunday, February 4, 2024
Amazing Chinese Characters (661) The ninth of Heavenly Stems - 壬
Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches together form a Chinese calendar circle. There are ten characters in Heavenly Stems, the ninth is the character we are discussing. There twelve characters in Earthly Branches. They pair up to form 60 pairs to count the years. It is difficult and unnecessary to go detail of this system, we just need to know, the character we discuss right now is one of Heavenly Stems.
The shell bone script of character of Then ninth of Heavenly Stems is
which is character Work (Post 465), it is ancient mortise-tenon structureAmazing Chinese Characters (752) Borderland - 陲
The bronze script of character Borderland is The left is cliff, the right is character Hang Down (Post 410). The remote Borderland is area w...
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