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.
The big seal script of character Gorge is
The left is character Mountain, the right is character Clip. This character is for Gorge among mountain area, normally it is bigger than ravine, most of time there is a river between the two mountains. The ravine is between two hills, normally no river in between.
The small seal script of character Shan is
Similar to its big seal script.
There is no small seal script of character Gorge, which means the character was not popular, probably Gorges are less seen than Ravines.
The clerical script of character Shan is
The left is Radical Er (looks like er, but means cliff), the right is character Clip.
The clerical script of character Gorge is
The left is character Mountain, the right is character Clip.
The Pinyin of character Shan (陕）is Shan3, the pinyin of character Gorge is Xia2.
Right now, the meaning of ravine of character Shan (陕）is disappeared. Gorge is used for ravine most of time.
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