Friday, February 16, 2024

Amazing Chinese Characters (665) Too - 也

The big seal script of character Too is

which is like the character for Snake, but it is a tongue. In 3500+ years ago, the tongue symbolizes communication with the divine. The character became meaning of Too, to confirm something is also the same, which people might have thought that the divine also agrees the claim. 

The small seal script of character Too is


Some similarity to big seal script. 

The clerical script of character Too is
No similarity any more. We just can imagine that the middle vertical stroke + the left vertical stroke turning to bottom tail is the tongue alike part of the older scripts, the horizontal from left to right turn is the snake head like part. 

The pinyin of the character is Ye3. 



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