Tuesday, March 5, 2024

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.



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