Sunday, February 25, 2024

Amazing Chinese Characters (669) Surround - 围/圍

 The bronze script of character Surround is


The inside is character Wei - 韋, which means patrol and guard; Outside is a big circle, means city wall. The character means that patrol and guard the city. Actually, the character 韋 and  圍 have the same meaning, just 韋 is earlier when the city had no wall, 圍 is later when the city inside had wall surrounded. 

The big seal script of character Surround is

Similar to bronze script.

The small seal script of character Surround is


Similar to older scripts.

The clerical script of character Surround is


Very similar to small seal script.

The simplified song typeface is

The inside 韦 has changed dramatically, it is from cursive script, lost the pictography completely.

The Pinyin of the character is Wei2.








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