Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Amazing Chinese characters (664) Ancient Lapel - 衽

 The big seal script of character Ancient Lapel is


The left is character Cloth, the right is character The ninth Heavenly Stems, here means "the key area of cloth". Probably because you have to hold the area to take on or take off the cloth.



Generally speaking the Lapel is the black wide belt "y" from the neck down to right waist, restrictedly speaking, it is the bottom of black "y" (below the "v") is the meaning of the character. It was very popular in ancient China, people created a character to represent it. But there have been no this kind cloth for one thousand of years, so most of modern Chinese don't know what the character means.

The small seal script of character Ancient Lapel is


The left is character Cloth, the right is character The ninth Heavenly Stems.

The clerical script of character Ancient Lapel is


The left is Radical Cloth, the right is The ninth Heavenly Stems. 

The pinyin of the character is Ren4.









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