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. 

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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