Amazing Chinese Characters (679) Resist - 抗

 The big seal script of character Resist is

The left is character Hand, the right is character Hyperactive. The character means that use hands very hard to resist a force. The character Hyperactive indicates the action of resistance is very strong.

The small seal script of character Resist is

Similar to its big script.

The clerical script of character Resist is

The left is Radical Hand, the right is character Hyperactive.

The Pinyin of the character is Kang4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (678) Handsome Husband - 伉

 The big seal script of character Handsome Husband is

The left is character Person, the right is character Hyperactive, here it means big, tall, and handsome man.

The character is used with 儷（俪）to form 伉儷（伉俪), which means "Well matched couple". The character 伉 is the handsome husband, the 俪 is the beautiful wife.

The small seal script of character Handsome Husband is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Handsome Husband is

The left is Radical Person, the right is character Hyperactive.

The Pinyin of character Hyperactive is Kang4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (677) Kang (Heatable Earth Bed) - 炕

 The big seal script of character Kang is

Kang is a traditional earth bed in northern China.

Kang

Model of Kang

The fire under bed to heat the bed all day in the winter, people sleep, talk on the bed.

The left of the character is character Fire, the right is character Hyperactive, here means "more than normal". When you heat the kang, you give more heat to the kang which has more than normal heat to be warm in the winter. 

The small seal script of character Kang is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Kang is

The left is character Fire or Radical Fire, the right is character Hyperactive. 

The Pinyin of character Kang is Kang4.

Amazing Chinese Characters (676) Hyperactive - 亢

 The shell bone script of character Hyperactive is

A character Big

with a horizontal line between two legs. 

The character means that a man is over confident, over proud himself, standing with two legs apart big. The horizontal line indicates that he couldn't or doesn't want to put his legs together. The original meaning has little or no Hyperactive.

The bronze script of character Hyperactive is

Similar to its shell bone script.

The big seal script of character Hyperactive is 

The top and bottom are separated, the horizontal short line between legs disappeared, lost the pictography.

The small seal script of character Hyperactive is

Similar to its big seal script.

The clerical script of character Hyperactive is

Similar to big, small seal scripts, except the top is changed from a little bit curve to straight line.

The Pinyin of the character is Kang4.

The character means Hyperactive too, added the meaning more than two thousand years ago. but still keeps the meaning of Over Proud. 

Amazing Chinese Characters (675) Coupling (tools) - 耦

 The big seal script of character Coupling (tools) is

The left is character Rake, the right is character Puppet, here means a tool which could be arranged by people. The character original meant Rake couples with another tool to work together, it means two tools could couple together to work, or simply they are connected. Normally, the coupling is very fit, like the rake teeth are all connected to rake bar.

The lotus roots are connected

The small seal script of character Coupling (tools) is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Coupling (tools) is

The left is Radical Rake, the right is character Puppet. 

The Pinyin of the character is Ou3.

Amazing Chinese characters (674) Plow - 耕

 The big seal script of character Plow is

The left is character Rake, the right is character Well, the dot in the middle of the square is an indicative to tell where the character means: here, the water in bottom of the middle of the well. Plow the field near wells to make sure, you have enough water to irrigate the grain crops. It also means that people raise rice because rice needs a lot of water. The 耒 is a rake, used in rice field to flat the field.

The small seal script of character Plow is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Plow is

Similar to older scripts, except the left curve stroke disappeared, the right dot in the square disappeared. 

The Pinyin of the character is Gen1.

Amazing Chinese Characters (673) Rake - 耒

 The big seal script of character Rake is

The top is a rake, the bottom is character Wood, a wooden rake. 

The small seal script of character Rake is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Rake is

The top is similar to older scripts, the bottom is character Wood shared the horizontal line with the top.

The pinyin of the character is Lei3.

The character is not used alone now, but is existed in many compound characters related to farm works.